Google, Disney team up for Star Wars lightsaber experimentDecember 16, 2015 - 10:46 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Google on Friday, December 15, launched a new Chrome experiment called “Lightsaber Escape” in partnership with Disney, LucasFilm, and Industrial Light & Magic. The Star Wars “interactive web experience” starts off in a Star Destroyer, where Google says “you’ll need to use your phone as a lightsaber to escape the First Order,” VentureBeat reports. In March 2009, Google launched Chrome Experiments to show off what its browser can do. More specifically, the company asked programmers to push the limits of HTML5 and JavaScript to demonstrate what can be built on the Web. Earlier this year, Google announced it now had over 1,000 Chrome experiments, meaning about 200 new experiments are added every year. The Lightsaber Escape game is quite simple. You swing your phone around to control the lightsaber on your desktop or laptop with the goal of fighting storm troopers and other villains. The game is considered a Chrome experiment because it was developed to work only in the browser. The 3D graphics were built with WebGL, the communication between your phone and computer occur over WebRTC and WebSockets (Google says this reduces latency and improves interactivity), and the rest use web standards that ensure the experiment works across browsers without plugins (though of course Google makes sure that experiments it builds work best in Chrome). Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. Armenia, Russia discuss life extension of Metsamor nuclear plant Issues regarding the extension of life of the 2nd power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant were discussed in Yerevan. Armenians stage more campaigns against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan Protesters blocked more roads across Armenia on Friday, April 26 in continuing attempts to scuttle territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. |