New Challenges AR will pose for the Web
Artificial and Virtual reality are here whether you’re using your phone, tablet, cardboard, htc, occulus, playstation… let’s face it there’s a lot of options. This stuff is going to continue to take off and it will be interesting to see how the web can play a role in this new “viewport”
The fundamental differences in AR introduces a lot of challenges for the web. Within AR, identifying and tracking the environment accurately is critical and it is a hard problem (Read about SLAM if you want to understand this). Within VR, I don’t think SLAM is of immediate concern and its purpose there will be to blend experiences and transition from AR to VR world and vice-versa. A web implementation of SLAM might not be bad idea with benchmarks.
An excerpt from New Challenges AR will pose for the Web
