Glitch: The friendly community where everyone builds the web
Glitch: The friendly community where everyone builds the web
The biggest players in tech are staking a claim on the metaverse, saying “it’s the next big thing.” But the metaverse is already here. It’s not the exclusive playground of big tech companies. Regular people are building the future of virtual reality right now, on the free and open web.
With hundreds of thousands of AR and VR projects from artists, coders, and designers around the world, Glitch is home to one of the largest creator communities in this new reality.
At Glitch, we think the future of the web should be open, never dependent on any one stack of hardware or software created by one or two giant tech companies. The metaverse should be fun, creative and expressive, not just about meetings or shopping.Most of all, we believe that the biggest innovations of the future will come from unexpected places and communities, so it’s essential to provide accessible tools to experiment for anyone who wants them. The good news is, you can do this
today, with one click.
The term WebXR refers to “eXtended” or “cross” reality experiences you can access on the web. XR can include Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) that overlays virtual elements onto the physical world, and Mixed Reality (MR) which combines elements of both.
We’re champions of the most inclusive version of XR, where users can enjoy these experiences on a computer, phone, or VR device—whether that’s special hardware from brands like Oculus, Vive, Samsung and others, or just on a regular web browser. All built, of course, with free and open technologies.
is an open source project that allows you to build VR on top of regular HTML, so you can create a WebXR experience just as easily as you can make a web page, simply by including a script and markup in your page. With A-Frame, you can create cross-platform VR apps that users across multiple device types can access.
~networked-aframe by @haydenjameslee
If you’ve ever written HTML you can write A-Frame code.
With everything from
A-Frame’s official starter projects
Living on Glitch, it’s easy to see why so many creators build here: with just a few clicks, you can be splashing around in the next dimension, and your experiments are immediately visible and available on the web. Frictionlessly share and collaborate on a new reality, all from the Glitch editor.