Playing in the metaverse

Recently on WPwatercooler EP436 – A New Dimension of WordPress we had Anthony Burchell on the show to discuss with us the use of 3D in the WordPress block editor. I’ve been playing around with metaverse environments for the last few years with the Meta Quest 2 and found that this functionality to be quite awesome.

With Anthony’s new plugin you can add the blog to your post and then upload some .glb files (I found a few over here on Sketchfab) and uploaded them to my medial library like you would any other file. From there I was able to place the Gutenberg block on the page and press the + sign to add the objects to the scene. I’m not good at this but I was able to add a sea with a container ship and I tried to add a ramp so you can get up on the ship.

As we learned from Anthony you can also put your VR headset on and open the in device web browser and navigate to that url of the page you have build and press the Enter World button to go full screen and walk around the world. As he stated on the show the pro version will have some vidoe player functionality I’d love to mess with for WPwatercooler.