Tag: web

  • WebXR is now supported on all major browsers

    With the visionOS2 release Safari gains webXR support

  • BCC Innovation World

    BCC Innovation World

    The other large project we’ve been working on for the past few month is the immersive component of BCC Innovation Festival, the startup festival held by BCC ICCREA. This is a very large conglomerate of what are basically Credit Unions, when translating it into English. Immersive identity The concept developed by our clients’ communications department…

  • Tip: use Tree to generate HTML directory listings

    Part of our job in the BCC Arte & Cultura project is to provide the “high fidelity” visualizations for each artwork. For some that means one of our 3D scans, for others it’s simply a zoomable interface. Our clients are making a “standard” website and simply linking to our server for the high fidelity version.…

  • Expedition report: BCC Arte & Cultura

    The first half of this year was taken up by two large projects for BCC ICCREA. We’re doing the immersive components of the BCC Innovation Festival (a startup festival, we were among the winners of the first edition) and of BCC Arte & Cultura (an effort to catalogue the art and cultural heritage artifacts belonging…

  • Link post: Digital Dark Age

    Just sharing this MIT Technology Review article on digital archives, a cause that’s close to our hearts: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1096284/data-archives-archeologists-tiktok-future-wayback-machine/?src=longreads It is always a good occasion to mention: donate to the Internet Archive, it is such an important resource, and it’s constantly under attack. Donating to them was the first thing I did when I got my…

  • Self description considered harmful

    In the post on alt-text from the other day we briefly talked about our perplexity about self descriptions: the trendy practice of describing one’s appearance when speaking at online conferences. The new WebAIM screen reader user survey came out, and it turns out that 68% or respondents agree with us.

  • TIL: minimal PWA setup

    TIL: minimal PWA setup

    Our webdev approach tends towards the minimal, we’re allergic to leaky abstractions. Even using WordPress for this blog is mostly motivated by learning more about such a popular system, for everything else we use good old HTML + CSS + JS, served by a good old Apache web server. PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) are websites…

  • Launching BCC Innovation World

    Launching BCC Innovation World

    We started this company by winning the Bain award at the original BCC Innovation Festival, back in 2022. In a bit of a homecoming, we were tapped to provide immersive services for the next edition of the Festival. Il Pensatore: an immersive landing Following the concept from BCC’s own creative department, we created a low-poly…

  • A few posts on alt-text

    We really care about accessibility, and alt-text is one of the most visible interventions in this field, thanks to its inclusion in social media UIs and to activist evangelism. As a primer, Eric Bailey wrote some thoughts about the nuances of the matter: https://ericwbailey.website/published/thoughts-on-embedding-alternative-text-metadata-into-images/ Also check out this post by Heather Buchel, with a much…

  • Press Release: Sala Venezia Giulia

    Press Release: Sala Venezia Giulia

    The BCC ICCREA group issued a press release about the newly available Sala Venezia Giulia: an additional room for temporary exhibitions in the Arte in Banca virtual gallery. The room currently hosts 5 works by Graziano Cuberli. An inauguration reception was held in Romans d’Isonzo. For the occasion we overhauled the rest of the Arte…