Project updates: H1 2024
Published on March 5, 2025 by Igalia
From January to June 2024, with input from partners about how to prioritize the available funding, Igalia completed the following tasks:
* Research about ways of making the watching experience of content in uncommon positions better.
* Launching Wolvic directly into an immersive experience
* Cleanup fullscreen code
* vertical videos support with additional fixes
* Drastically reduce the amount of battery level checks to reduce memory consumption
* Hand tracking motion range extension.
* Add support for tracked keyboards via OpenXR's [XR_FB_keyboard_tracking](https://registry.khronos.org/OpenXR/specs/1.0/html/xrspec.html#XR_FB_keyboard_tracking) extension
* Reorient immersive videos
* Clean-up the window resizing logic
* Draw dialogs on a flat surface
* Use Khronos OpenXR loader from Maven
* Improved support for remote environments
* Added support for [hand interaction extension](https://registry.khronos.org/OpenXR/specs/1.1/html/xrspec.html#XR_EXT_hand_interaction). Grip&aim poses working. Pinch working.
* Big refactoring on the hand tracking and controllers code
* Research about ways of making the watching experience of content in uncommon positions better.
* Launching Wolvic directly into an immersive experience
* Cleanup fullscreen code
* vertical videos support with additional fixes
* Drastically reduce the amount of battery level checks to reduce memory consumption
* Hand tracking motion range extension.
* Add support for tracked keyboards via OpenXR's [XR_FB_keyboard_tracking](https://registry.khronos.org/OpenXR/specs/1.0/html/xrspec.html#XR_FB_keyboard_tracking) extension
* Reorient immersive videos
* Clean-up the window resizing logic
* Draw dialogs on a flat surface
* Use Khronos OpenXR loader from Maven
* Improved support for remote environments
* Added support for [hand interaction extension](https://registry.khronos.org/OpenXR/specs/1.1/html/xrspec.html#XR_EXT_hand_interaction). Grip&aim poses working. Pinch working.
* Big refactoring on the hand tracking and controllers code