Media Source Extensions™ is a W3C Recommendation
17 November 2016 | Archive
The HTML Media Extensions Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation for Media Source Extensions™. This specification fulfills a vital part of putting video on the Web by extending the HTML5 video capabilities and facilitating a variety of use cases like adaptive streaming, time shifting and video editing, as well as 360° video players. Flexible and powerful, Media Source Extensions™ provides commercial quality IP streaming video for Web applications, across different platforms and between unrelated companies, and is already deployed in major browsers and video services, such as Youtube.
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W3C Workshop Report: Web & Virtual Reality
17 November 2016 | Archive
W3C published today the report of the
W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality held on October 19-20 2016 in San
Jose, California, USA. During the workshop, 120 participants
representing browser vendors, headset and hardware manufacturers, VR
content providers, designers and distributors analyzed the opportunities
provided by making the Web a full-fledged platform for VR experiences.
They recognized the strong prospects already opened by existing and
in-development Web APIs, in particular the WebVR API that
was highlighted as an important target for near-term standardization, as
well as the high priority of making the Web a primary platform for
distributing 360° videos. They also identified new
opportunities that would be brought by enabling traditional Web pages to
be enhanceable as immersive spaces, and in the longer
term, by making 3D content a basic brick available to Web developers and
content aggregators.
You may read more in our media advisory.
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