Road To AR, VR, MR and XR

A conversation with Josh Marinacci, (@joshmarinacci) about the
first Java class, 1995 and early Java, Ian Smith, building ray
tracers with JDK 1.0, why Sun had great programmers, speed vs.
safety, Snow Crash without cell phones, metaverse scalability, 3d
interface with Swing and Mozilla with hubs, project wonderland and
open wonderland, windows look and feel with Swing, Amy Fowler, Jeff
Dickins from Swing Team, Window native controls look with Swing,
progress bar is the hardest thing, Matisse GUI builder, JSR-296,
Swing Application Framework, JSR-295 beans binding, smartphones
killed Swing, Java FX as flash competitor, Tesla car configurator
with Swing, f3 and Chris Oliver, Java Store before Mac Store, Palm
and WebOS, WebOS built-in Java, why HP cancelled WebOS, LG WebOS,
Awesome Box 5000 widgets, point and shoot camera with Android at
Nokia research, high websockets scalability with pubnub, block
functions and edge computing, VR, AR, mixed reality at mozilla, MDN
-- the JS JCP, JavaScript like Java, JavaScript -- no batteries
included, anonymous inner classes in JS, AR, VR, MR, XR, the
XR-spec with security backed in, WebXR Device API:, VRML and GLTF,
USDZ, Firefox refactoring, servo and rust, lightspeed adoption of
CSS grid, trying VR now, Firefox reality , browsing 2d in 3d, a
call for VR activities, themed multi-user virtual places: Moziila
Hubs, be social, have fun, airhacks.tv in 3D, three.js and a-frame
for content creation, amazon sumerian, web assembly -- the XR
accelarator, web assembly and asm, browser as VM, contact josh:
https://twitter.com/joshmarinacci, mail: josh@josh.earth.