“There is no spoon” - Building VR experiences in the Browser (With JS)

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Argues that usable VR runs in the browser with JavaScript and demonstrates it: an apartment tour and a socket‑based multiplayer shooter built in a few days, ~200 lines of JS, hosted on GitHub Pages and tested on phones; uses A‑Frame, create‑react‑app plus Redux and WebSockets, targets the WebVR standard backed by Mozilla and Facebook, open source code available, and the demos work live in the room.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:28VR with JavaScript matters now
3. 3:59The Matrix immersive experiences
4. 6:46VR technology history
5. 8:52WebXR modern VR solution
6. 10:56Why WebXR is the way
7. 13:45WebXR vs traditional VR
8. 15:30JavaScript in VR ecosystem
9. 16:31Getting started with WebXR
10. 17:14Live VR apartment demo
11. 19:22Headset options testing
12. 20:27Live multiplayer VR demo
13. 21:31Matrix shooter demo
14. 23:00Demo technical breakdown
15. 24:43Resources to learn more
16. 25:27Call to action

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