Hi all,
We've had a lot of excitement around our VR efforts and the MozVR site, and we
want to capitalize on this momentum. Very soon, I'll be landing the early
support code for VR in mozilla-central, pref'd off by default. This includes
adding the core VR interfaces, display item and layers functionality for VR
rendering, as well as supporting code such as extensions to the Fullscreen API.
Core VRDevices API:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036604
Layers/gfx pieces:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036602
Fullscreen API extensions:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036606
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036597
This code is sufficient to perform WebGL-based VR rendering with an output
going to an Oculus Rift. None of the CSS-based VR code is ready to land yet.
Additionally, this won't work out of the box, even if the pref is flipped,
until we ship the Oculus runtime pieces (but initially instructions will be
available on where to get the relevant DLL and where to put them).
The following things need to take place to pref this code on by default for
nightly/aurora builds (not for release):
- Figure out how to ship/package/download/etc. the Oculus runtime pieces.
- Add support for Linux
- Add basic tests for VRDevice APIs
Beyond that there is a lot of work left to be done, both around supporting
additional headset and input devices (Cardboard, etc.) as well as platforms
(Android, FxOS), but that can be done directly in the tree instead of needing
to maintain separate one-off builds for this work.
- Vlad
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