Brandel Zachernuk

developer.apple.comGet started with the HTML Model Element - WWDC26 - Videos - Apple DeveloperLearn how the model element brings interactive 3D content to your websites — now on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. Discover tools for...

Safari on macOS and iOS 27 have joined visionOS in having full support for the HTML <model> element! 🫖 I am so excited for everyone to play with it. We go into the details about how it works and what to expect in our excellent session here: developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

developer.apple.comExplore immersive website environments in visionOS - WWDC26 - Videos - Apple DeveloperTransport your website's visitors into virtual environments in Apple Vision Pro using the new Immersive API in JavaScript. Explore how to...

10 June

As well as that, we've enhanced the <model> element in visionOS to drive the new immersive website environments, letting you control playback and position as well as preview inline! Details are in this session, with some truly thrilling visuals: developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

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Saron Yitbarek

@saron.bsky.social

10 June

Our video covering everything new for web developers in Safari 27 is now up and it's all about ✨quality✨. BUT we got some fun stuff for you too -- Grid Lanes, Customizable Select, the <model> element, and more. Check it out ❤️ developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

developer.apple.comWhat’s new in WebKit for Safari 27 - WWDC26 - Videos - Apple DeveloperExplore what's new in WebKit — from Grid Lanes and Customizable Select, to HTML Model and Immersive Environments, and the latest for Web...

In a world of spatial computing, what is the future of information? What is the Future of Text? Of poetry? In my spare time I used #threejs to revisit some of my favorite kinetic typography - video below, and link in the thread to experience it yourself:

Growing the original's wide expanse of white all aroudn you allows for surreal, otherworldly focus on the text. The speed and the scale of the words test the limit of conscious legibility, enhancing a sense that the poetry is absorbed as a *feeling* as much as read as a text.

Writing, with such freedom in place and scale, supplies a new dimension of meaning - maybe we can call it "reinforced concrete poetry." All this is meant as a story-starter, though. What do you want to see as text in space? What do you want to build? Let's chat.

youtube.comWhat do prototypes prototype? Exhibit hall versionYouTube video by Brandel Zachernuk

And the space itself matters too. With "What do prototypes prototype?", the watershed 1997 paper, I built it as a museum exhibit, looking at the experiential - and social - consequences of spatial info: Information architecture becomes load-bearing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMr3...

Which brings us to today. Poetic, creative writing is just as central to the human experience of reading. While the original was designed for screens, I wanted to work with material that points at the possibilities of relaxing into this new medium.

youtube.comVirtual Reality Word Processor prototypeYouTube video by Brandel Zachernuk

Why poetry? I've been pushing text into space as a hobby for over a decade, first with spatial, gestural word processing, where I first realized the gulf between mere "text entry" and truly "writing." What is writing *made of*? How does it happen? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxvi...

youtube.comTimeline VR DemonstrationYouTube video by Brandel Zachernuk

And what about reading? What matters about space, scale and proximity when you have the freedom of a gallery with none of the physical restrictions? I made a Wikipedia-as-warehouse with Timeline VR. Structure at a distance takes on new significance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeKd...

zachernuk.neocities.orgLOTUS BLOSSOM by YHCHANG

zachernuk.neocities.org/2026/yhchang/ (best viewed on a VR device) It's a webXR rendition of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industry's LOTUS BLOSSOM, extracted twice - first the SWF file from the internet archive, and then the glyph data from the SWF into SDF text to display in type as big as your head.

aousd.orgAlliance for OpenUSD Announces Core Specification 1.0: The Universal Language For Building 3D Worlds - The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)The production-ready open standard aims to end 3D data fragmentation and ensure high-performance composition for planet-scale world-building across animation, digital twins, and simulation. SAN FRANCI...

18 Dec 2025

The Alliance for OpenUSD has released the official 1.0 Specification! aousd.org/news/core-sp... If you to show products, configure 3D stuff or even do spatial web viz, please join AOUSD and the Web Interest Group to hear about what people are doing, and give input on how to make USD work for you!

webkit.orgA step into the spatial web: The HTML model element in Apple Vision ProvisionOS 26 brings a major update to an important building block for the spatial web: The HTML model element is enabled by default, with a new API that’s ready to use today.

27 June 2025

3D models on the web have been at the center of my world for over a decade, and I’m so excited about where we are today. We’ve got a new post about the HTML Model element and how to use it - and cool demos you can take a look at yourself! Check it out at webkit.org/blog/17118/a...

developer.apple.comOptimize for the spatial web - WWDC24 - Videos - Apple DeveloperDiscover how to make the most of visionOS capabilities on the web. Explore recent updates like improvements to selection highlighting,...

12 June 2024

Want to know more about building great content for the spatial web in visionOS? I had the privilege to cover it at #wwdc24 - and the video is now live! Check it out at developer.apple.com/videos/play/... I hope it gets your wheels turning 🚲 about what you can do on the platform 😄

webkit.orgIntroducing Natural Input for WebXR in Apple Vision ProApple Vision Pro is here, and with it, a lot of excitement about the possibilities for WebXR in visionOS.

20 Mar 2024

My first contribution to WebKit.org is up! Today we're pleased to introduce a new, privacy-preserving mode of input for WebXR. It's both standards-compliant _and_ more in line with user expectations on visionOS. Check it out! webkit.org/blog/15162/i...

press.uchicago.eduA History of ReadingTracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating A History of Reading offers a ...

🧵 To help build the future of computing, I’m reading Steven Roger Fischer’s _A history of Reading._ It’s a stunning, yet matter-of-fact account of the last 5000 years of text and recording. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 1/

That said, there is something different about the present moment. Spatial computing gives us an opportunity to live and express outside the laws of physics, to encode and discern meaning without the explicit interaction with physical surfaces. 6/

But we do ourselves a disservice by ignoring the other revolutionary moments that lead us to this point. Inventing the future is some of the hardest work we can pursue - but with luck, our descendants will see it as inevitable, even disbelieving there could be a time before it. 7/7

I’m enormously optimistic about the scope of technology to change human life - that’s why I do what I do. But it’s also essential to understand that *everything* we interact with is technology, including reading and writing. 4/

And it’s also essential to understand that what looks revolutionary on a 5-year timeline is really only contributing at the margins of a vast, millennia-long project of better pursuing the universal human goal of expression and comprehension. 5/

Why look to the past, and why bother going so far? Because it’s the only way we can see change at a scale we need to imagine for the future. Here in the early 21st century, it can be easy to feel like the way we communicate is more or less fixed. Not so! 2/

Most people are aware that printing is only 500 years old - but did you know that _page numbers_ only became popular about 50 years later? And punctuation - including the *the spaces between words* - only really emerged as a standard 500 years before that, around 1000 AD? 3/