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Viewing this on a beefy desktop, running Linux-Chrome, I'm seeing ~18 FPS, with very frequent freezes and frame skips. (Especially on the ping-pong demo.)

I don't have my cardboard on hand, but this sounds headache-inducing in VR.

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I have a Nexus 5X and trying this just crashed my phone. As in everything froze and then the device rebooted. I only tried one experiment[0] and couldn't even get it to run.

[0]: https://www.webvrexperiments.com/experiment/mass-migrations

I had the same experience when I saw my first online streaming video many many years ago.

Your first streaming video was probably unwatchable. The problem with VR is that for a lot of people 'unwatchable' means serious headaches and nausea.

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