Episode 031 with Brandon Jones: Origins of WebVR/WebXR, the Spec, Performance, Input Profiles and more!

Vhite Rabbit WebXR Podcast

Brandon Jones is a developer at Google and one of the two people who originally brought WebVR into life. As one of the main WebXR Device API spec editors, developer on Chrome's WebGL implementation and contributor on the webxr-input-profiles, he has some interesting insights to share on web graphics performance, spec contribution process and the history of WebXR.
During our wide-ranging conversation, we touch on WebGPU, Brandon's recent blog post "WebXR Scene Optimization", motivations for the webxr-input-profiles project, how WebGL extensions find adoption and much more.
It was a great honor to speak with one of the founding fathers of VR on the web and we wish you a great time listening to this episode.
Links:

• https://github.com/immersive-web/layers - Where work on the layers feature of the WebXR spec is happening
• https://immersive-web.github.io/ - The "WebXR Device API" specification
• https://github.com/immersive-web - The "Immersive Web" group on github. Find all WebXR Device API spec related repositories here
• https://github.com/immersive-web/webxr-input-profiles - The "WebXR Input Profiles" project
• https://twitter.com/Tojiro/ - Brandon Jones on twitter