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benvanik / vr.js

NPAPI plugin to expose fun VR devices to Javascript.
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Find the alternative to NPAPI #20

Open japboy opened 11 years ago

japboy commented 11 years ago

How do you think...

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html

benvanik commented 11 years ago

Not sure :( Pepper has no support for USB APIs. Without running a local app (which I wanted to avoid, as this causes additional latency) I'm not seeing how to make things work :(

Ben Vanik http://www.noxa.org

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Yu I. notifications@github.com wrote:

How do you think...

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/benvanik/vr.js/issues/20 .

jdarpinian commented 10 years ago

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/10/connecting-chrome-apps-and-extensions.html An alternative to web sockets for bidirectional communication with native code. Might have better latency properties, though probably still worse than NPAPI.

BHSPitMonkey commented 10 years ago

Perhaps a better architecture would be to get the Rift exposed to the OS as a gamepad (comprised of a handful of analog axes), and then just have a drop-in JS library that knows how to make sense out of the data (using the HTML5 Gamepad API)?

bnolan commented 10 years ago

I think we should integrate the work done by Cupola...

https://github.com/DanAndersen/cupola

To use the chrome USB API. I can't get it to work in os x yet, but still working on it.

BHSPitMonkey commented 10 years ago

That API is only usable by Chrome Apps, not extensions. How would you propose making the data accessible to arbitrary tabs? On Mar 26, 2014 11:54 PM, "Ben Nolan" notifications@github.com wrote:

I think we should integrate the work done by Cupola...

https://github.com/DanAndersen/cupola

To use the chrome USB API. I can't get it to work in os x yet, but still working on it.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/benvanik/vr.js/issues/20#issuecomment-38769081 .

bnolan commented 10 years ago

Oh I didn't realise. That's a bit of a sticking point. :/