Visit this page on one smartphone to use as a Viewer, and go to the link below on another smartphone to use as a Lightsaber
This experiment was inspired by lightsaber.withgoogle.com, but takes the idea a step further. You will be able to use one smartphone as a control for the lightsaber and the other one to view the immersive VR experience with Google Cardboard. It all runs on a webkit enabled browser such as Safari or Chrome. I'm using free hosting for a rather high bandwidth application so you may notice significant delays. For the best experience, follow the instructions on Github to get the app running locally on your machine.
First get two smartphones which have the latest versions of Safari or Google Chrome. Choose one to use as the Viewer and one to use as the Lightsaber. Open this website on the Viewer device, and you will see a shortlink above. Open the shortlink on the Lightsaber device, and you will see a button appear on the Viewer device. Turn the Viewer sideways, press the button, and insert it into your Google Cardboard. The phone acting as the Lightsaber will control a 3D rendered Lightsaber on the Viewer. Deflect some laser ball things.
Both components of this experiment, the Lightsaber and the Viewer, run on the web. They use the latest HTML5 technologies as well as some modern backends. Below is a list of some of the main parts of this application.
This experiment was built by Ajay Ramesh. I love Star Wars almost as much as I love the Web.