540: The Points Don’t Matter
Accidental Tech Podcast
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The Role of OS in Hovering APIs
Safari has a whole new element highlighting pattern that escarads the webs built in hover APIs. It's not just the web that gets this treatment, you don't get to render and shade it yourself. Instead, you hand off meshes and high level materials to the US and it renders it for you. The OS treats your room as kind of like a cube map or whatever and the objects that are in front of the user can be incorporated into the scene without any idea what they're looking at. You don't have to figure out how the lighting should be because you don't need to render that. At least if you're doing a VR app, but there is no more flexibility
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