By Donald Denney | Realm Forge Academy
There’s a moment in every emerging technology’s lifecycle when it crosses over from novelty to necessity. For mixed reality, that moment is now — and it’s happening inside web browsers.
As part of the Realm Forge Academy course Defining a New Reality: Enter the Metaverse, I’ve built a browser-based mixed reality tool that lets students use their device camera to detect a flat surface in their physical environment and place a 3D avatar into a fixed position in the real world. No app store. No headset. Just a browser and curiosity.
[Image: Screenshot of the MR tool detecting a surface and placing an avatar]
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