You heard right. Supermedium is launching out of Y Combinator’s winter batch with a browser that it hopes can show people the promises of Virtual Reality (VR) Content that lives across the Web. Download Supermedium, put on a headset, & quickly surf dozens of fresh fully VR Sites.
Here’s what the team has said on its official blog:
We are establishing the Web as a legitimate foundation for VR, and for immersive platforms going forward. Just as there are a billion websites today, we are aiming for millions of VR sites in the future. And it starts with a browser.
The beauty of web-based VR is that content loads fast. A typical native VR application is several or dozens of gigabytes large, takes a minute or two to boot, and costs $20. On Supermedium, you can click a link in Supermedium and within a few seconds, you can be painting in A-Painter, shooting asteroids in Space Rocks, or be on the sea train from Spirited Away. Have a go at a VR experience for a minute or two, and move onto something else if you want.
