Beyond Websites: Creating Web Spaces
summary
Claim: the web already supports building interactive web spaces not just pages using existing browser APIs. Specifics: phones expose nine sensors, web speech synthesis works everywhere, recognition and Generic Sensor are Chromium-limited, and simple microcontrollers are cheap. Demo uses an ESP32 + WebSockets demo inside "eggs" driving metaballs (network hiccup and one battery sleep but metaballs respond). Tooling examples include MediaPipe for pose and gaze, Node WebSocket server, headless API CMS, and development time of about half a day to a day. Notes on accessibility and explicit permission for cameras/mics.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Web spaces introduction
- 1:25Browsers' sensor capabilities
- 3:10Pages vs spaces differences
- 4:16Web spaces examples
- 5:38Sensors integration
- 7:06Live hardware demo
- 10:05Microcontrollers for interactivity
- 11:31Simple architecture experiments
- 12:54Accessibility and privacy
- 14:19Designing for multiple surfaces
- 15:03Web spaces now
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