I was just on WebmasterWorld viewing it in VR and all I can say is HOLY CRAP! it was small.
I found a way to enable my Samsung Gear VR goggles to disable their VR service, requires an app to disable services without root access, and then you can run Google Cardboard.
Once I broke the Samsung/Oculus chains trying to keep me trapped in their experience, I downloaded and tried other things and landed on something free called FullDive which is a VR front end system that's for the masses, not as fancy as the Oculus platform but basically performs the same function for Google Cardboard.
The first thing I got to do which I haven't done yet was to try browsing the web in VR.
WOW - What a mess! LOL
I'm not sure the browsing I did had Javascript enabled, probably didn't, but it didn't matter because imagine your website on a mobile device turned sideways, in landscape mode, then sliced in half. It's smaller than the portrait mode on that same device. EEEK!
However, I was able to easily browse and read WebmasterWorld and mostly the CSS held up except where the cramped spacing just blew a gasket and couldn't go any smaller.
Sites designed for VR, that could in theory produce a full 360 degree page of information, perhaps those will be a bit more useful. What I saw today was, albeit limited, but still functioned although the web purists would have puked.
Kind of reminds me of trying to browse the web from a Wii or something like that.
I'm assuming once the VR gold rush really kicks into full steam that a much better experience for traversing the web will quickly follow because going in and out of VR quickly becomes tedious, especially when you have to take the phone in and out of a viewer all the time. Using voice input helped a lot but eventually a true VR keyboard has to come online that can be typed on in VR like a real keyboard. Until then it's too tedious to deal with.
That won't slow down 360 game, photo and video content producers but it just might leave the rest of us sitting on the sidelines unless we come up with some clever applications of our own.
Off to explore Firefox WebVR and see if I can make any sense out of that and report back.
Hell, even the NY Times recently got involved with VR in a major way as they gave away a free Google Cardboard Viewer with one of their editions, so a lot of people probably got curious and came online all at once. There's some very good NY Times VR content available too. Not a lot, but I really liked what I saw.
There's definitely a VR gold rush underway and I'd hate to see it pass us by.
