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WebVR Experiments with YouTube

Description / Rationale

This is a project, consisting of several YouTube related experiments. They show the possibilities of web VR in streaming YouTube videos. In particular the following are available:

  1. Streaming simple Youtube videos directly into web VR with the help of slightly modified Youtube to HTML5 Loader. See: index.html.
  2. Streaming 360 Youtube videos (when compatible) into web VR with the help of Youtube to HTML5 Loader. See: Yotube360video.html.
  3. Streaming simple Youtube videos and removing their chroma key backgrounds. See: YoutubeChromaKey.html.
  4. Streaming Youtube videos using CSS3D made available through AFrame Websurfaces component. Please note that it does not support VR mode. See: YoutubeWebSurfaces.html.

Instructions

To see the project at work just copy the repository to your local server and explore all the functionality. For reference, please see the code or original components/repositories. To open other experiments on Glitch.com, just add html page after the main URL.

Tech Stack

The project is powered by AFrame.

Disclaimer

This project was created to show possibilities of webVR in streaming videos from Youtube and is intended for experimentation purposes only!

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