From the “things that are also cool in the browser” department: Using the passthrough feature of your VR headset to paint in the snow – in the headset’s browser, without any app, thanks to WebXR!
And like many cool things you can do in the browser nowadays, this has been around for years. Catching up takes time…
Built (ha! built) with Passtracing by fabio914, based on Three.js and three-mesh-ui. I only had to expand the maximum zoom a bit, for some reason it stopped at two meters. :)
Besides another superficial glimpse at the magic of Three.js (one day 3D maths and I will become friends…), I learned that my trusty old Meta Quest 2 does not like direct sunlight at all – even more so in a sea of infrared-reflecting snow. Good thing it worked in the end, resp. dawn. I really enjoy using that thing! With its extremely coarse, black-and-white only passthrough visuals, you could say it’s already giving retro vibes compared to its modern headset friends.
Shameless plug: The character I chose for this snowy adventure, Squinty…
…is from my first boxed Amiga game, zerosphere. You can grab a copy in various editions over at poly.play, among hundreds of other awesome titles.
