In this Modern Web Podcast Tracy Lee (@ladyleet) & Ben Lesh (@benlesh) ask questions regarding “What’s going on in VR?” with guests Aysegul Yonet (@AysSomething) and Martin Splitt (@g33konaut).

Hosts:

Tracy (@ladyleet) - RxJS core team, Google Developer Expert, co-founder This Dot Labs

Ben (@benlesh) - RxJS core team, engineer at Google, RxWorkshop

Guests:

Aysegul Yonet (@AysSomething) - Senior Angular Engineer at Narwhal Technologies Inc, GDE

Martin Splitt (@g33konaut) - Senior software engineer @ Archilogic3D

Topics/Questions:

- How to get started in VR.
- Equipment you need to get started.
- Practical applications of VR.
- Where is VR used now?
- Difference between Unity and VR
- VR standards

Places you can get started:
vizor.io
play.autodesk.com
aws.amazon.com/sumerian

Where to find 3D content -
poly.google.com
vr.google.com/blocks

Art installation in Zurich - Birdly - http://iad.zhdk.ch/en/projects/birdly/

To learn more visit www.thisdot.co

Follow today's members on twitter! @Ladyleet, @Benlesh, @AysSomething, @g33konaut, @moderndotweb

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In this Modern Web podcast 4 JavaScripters discuss WebAssembly.

Sean Larkin (@thelarkinn), core team member webpack

Jay Phelps (@_jayphelps), co-author redux-observable, wasm enthusiast, compiler freak

Tracy Lee (@ladyleet), RxJS core team, Google Developer Expert, co-founder This Dot Labs

Ben Lesh (@benlesh), RxJS core team, engineer at Google, RxWorkshop

Topics covered:

- Should you care about WebAssembly?

Listen to more podcasts at http://moderndotweb.com or find more events, content, and more at http://thisdot.co

In this Modern Web podcast Ben Lesh discusses the future of RxJS with Tracy Lee.

Topics covered:

- Decreasing the bundle size of RxJS

To learn RxJS, visit http://reactivex.io/rxjs.

Making and accepting payments on the web is quite cumbersome.

Thankfully, the new Payment Request API and vendors like Apple and Stripe make the implementation simple and secure. Molly Dalton and Zach Koch, who work closely with Edge, Chrome and the Payment Request API, join us to discuss how to use this new standard for seamless payments on the web.

Panelists

Molly Dalton @mollyadalton

Zach Koch @zachk

Host

Ray Shan @rayshan https://shan.io

Links

W3C Payment Request API

https://w3c.github.io/browser-payment-api/

W3C Technical Report Development Process with various stages

https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#recs-and-notes

Microsoft Edge

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge

Google Chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome/

Apple Pay JS

https://developer.apple.com/reference/applepayjs/

Stripe

https://stripe.com/

Authorize.Net

https://www.authorize.net/

Firefox Payment Request API implementation tracking

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318984

Washington Post integrates Payment Request API

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2016/09/28/the-washington-post-expands-mobile-payment-options-to-include-chromes-service/

Payment request integration guides

Google guide

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/discovery-and-monetization/payment-request/

Mozilla guide

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Request_API

Microsoft guide

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/dev-guide/device/payment-request-api

Live Payment Request API demos from Microsoft

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/testdrive/demos/paymentrequest/

Google I/O 2017 - The future of web payments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU89pPBmhds

What’s new in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Creators Update

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/04/11/introducing-edgehtml-15/

Simpler web payments: Introducing the Payment Request API

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/12/15/payment-request-api-edge

Simplify payments in UWP Apps with the Payment Request API from Microsoft

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/03/28/simplify-payments-uwp-apps-payment-request-api-microsoft

Leo Balter is a software engineer at Bocoup and an active member of the TC39 technical committee. If you are unfamiliar with TC39, it is the governing body for Javascript standards.

TC39 members include individuals from Google, Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo and many others. Leo is among these individuals and attends committee meetings as a representative of the JS Foundation.

Leo and Tracy discuss topics of societal barriers, exclusion of minorities, and sexism. Many of these topics surface as deterrents to individuals who want to be involved in the tech world but feel as if they are unable to do so well.

Leo’s talks about his experience being a Brazilian male entering a male dominated, Caucasian world and how this inspired him to want to promote greater diversity within the TC39 community.

Highlighted are the importance and benefits of having a wide range of diversity coming together to further the advancement of technology.

TC39

https://github.com/tc39

Bocoup

https://bocoup.com/

Leo Balter Twitter

https://twitter.com/leobalter

Leo Balter Github

https://github.com/leobalter