Virtual World Link

Virtual World Link is an open source project that aims to facilitate wandering through interactive VR worlds in a web browser. The goal is to be:

• Safe and Convenient for users
• Open and Nonrestrictive for developers
• High Performance for quality VR

Currently, it requires an Oculus Rift DK1, Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome. Individual VR worlds are implemented via (relatively) performance-friendly web technologies like WebGL and Google Native Client.

Getting Started

1. Make sure you have the Google Chrome browser on Windows and an Oculus Rift DK1.
2. Download and extract the NPVR plugin.
3. Download and extract the VWL extension.
4. Download and extract the NaCl Tuscany demo.
5. In Chrome, go to chrome://extensions
6. Make sure 'Developer Mode' is selected.
7. Select 'Load unpacked extension...' and load all three folders that you downloaded and extracted.
8. In the chrome menu, select 'Bookmarks -> Bookmark manager' and create a folder in the bookmark heirarchy, and name it 'vwl_worlds'.
9. Go to chrome://apps and click on the Tuscany demo (named 'integration-test' by default), and then click on the star on the URL bar to bookmark it. Make sure to add the bookmark in the 'vwl_worlds' folder. After the bookmark has been added, navigate away from the page.
10. Click the VWL extension icon in the upper right to start!

Developers

• VWL library
• Unity Oculus package, VWL package and build files
• Three.js example html, javascript and vwl_info.json
• Unity example

VWL Project Source

• VWL
• vr.js fork
• modified Oculus Unity integration

Feedback

• Discuss VWL on the Oculus forums.
• Report bugs with the github issue tracker.