{"id":170445,"date":"2016-07-01T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=170445"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T08:43:08","slug":"google-chrome-for-virtual-reality-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/170445-google-chrome-for-virtual-reality-in-development.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome for virtual reality in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beta and developer branches of Chrome for Android have received new features that suggest\u00a0the browser\u00a0will support virtual reality in the future, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/30\/google-chrome-vr-android\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engadget reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome Beta\u00a0now supports WebVR, which promises to support\u00a0sites that are designed for\u00a0virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome Dev offers a VR Shell, according to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+FrancoisBeaufort\/posts\/WLaEkTk9jHc\">Fran\u00e7ois Beaufort<\/a><\/strong>, which lets\u00a0users of Google&#8217;s Cardboard and\u00a0Daydream systems\u00a0browse the Internet with a headset.<\/p>\n<p>This will help solve the problem of needing to take off a VR\u00a0headset when you navigate to a site that doesn&#8217;t support VR.<\/p>\n<p>The VR Shell\u00a0and other features should appear\u00a0in stable beta versions of Chrome in the near future, said the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on virtual reality<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/169227-valve-focussing-on-virtual-reality.html\"><strong>Valve focussing on virtual reality<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/165478-virtual-reality-sex-is-coming-soon-heres-what-it-will-be-like.html\"><strong>Virtual Reality sex is coming soon \u2013 here\u2019s what it will be like<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/159426-10-cool-apps-for-virtual-reality.html\"><strong>10 cool apps for virtual reality<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/158829-oculus-rift-all-the-games-available-at-launch.html\"><strong>Oculus Rift \u2013 all the games available at launch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/156941-google-cardboard-vr-viewers-now-sold-by-the-companys-store.html\"><strong>Google Cardboard VR viewers now sold by the company\u2019s store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest development and testing branches of Chrome have received features to support virtual reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":147825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,1567,8729,167,29210],"class_list":["post-170445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-chrome","tag-chrome-for-android","tag-google","tag-virtual-reality-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170451,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170445\/revisions\/170451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}