This essay has been permanently moved to: Mindcasting · Stewart Smith In the future, we humans will be able to broadcast our visual imaginations in realtime. The art of…stewartsmith.io

This essay has been permanently moved to: Piano Lessons · Stewart Smith Their construction was clumsy - an eighth inch gap between the wooden door and metal jam. My skeleton key of…stewartsmith.io

Who needs expensive holographic goggles when you and your buddy have new smart phones and some old-school Cardboard? Here we are in the first half of 2018 and Augmented Reality (AR) is still primarily a handheld experience. Load up an AR app on your phone — such as Pokémon Go…

This essay has been permanently moved to: Space Rocks: Technical Deep Dive · Stewart Smith Last year (2017) I launched Space Rocks , a WebXR demo that re-imagines Atari 's Asteroids as an immersive, Web-based…stewartsmith.io

Escape through space on stolen plasma engines while slinging photon bolts at deadly asteroids. How many can you vaporize? Put on your virtual reality headset and pick up your hand controllers. You’ll need them if you want to survive. Play Space Rocks now at https://spacerocks.moar.io Space Rocks is a room-scale…

Easily add multiple channels of haptic feedback to your WebVR experience with VRController. Are you making custom virtual reality experiences for the Web? (You should probably get outside more.) VRController makes it easy to support 3DOF and 6DOF hand controllers for Oculus, Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, Daydream, GearVR, and more…

This essay has been permanently moved to: A Cleaner Grid of Time · Stewart Smith A modest proposal for improving the current Gregorian calendar by rethinking how the year is divide into months, the…stewartsmith.io

This essay has been permanently moved to: The Charm Offensive · Stewart Smith In early 2014, I single-handedly created Yahoo Mail's Autocompose feature in under two weeks for a highly succesful…stewartsmith.io

TL;DR: Chromium’s Gamepad API can be a quirky thing. But if you’re building interactive WebVR experiences with Three.js then VRController.js is here to help. UPDATE: Some time has passed since I first wrote this. If you’re looking for deeper insight into using VR hand controllers in WebXR check out the…