Virtual reality’s content problem has been so frustrating for users because the medium’s promise has been that it can take users anywhere. As developers continue to build up these worlds, Supermedium is launching out of Y Combinator’s winter batch with a browser that it hopes can show people the promises of virtual reality content that lives across the web.
While Oculus and Samsung have already experimented with and shipped VR browsers, the focus of those products has seemed to initially be centered heavily on giving users access to information housed on 2D websites. In a large part, that’s because the Gear VR and Rift already have the a content discovery platform by way of a dedicated app store.
The team at Supermedium wants to build a VR browser that fully lives up to the promises they see in WebVR, a platform that can take you from a link to a fully immersive world in seconds. They’re more focused on creating a ground-up solution that is built to accommodate 3D content first with the eventual goal of creating a web where you can hop in between 3D experiences without ever leaving them.
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Source: Techcrunch