Summer 2022 - Igloo Web

Software	Release Version	Icon

Software	Release Version	Icon
Igloo Web	1.4.x	Open

Function:

Igloo Web is a custom, and highly customisable web browser designed for use with Igloo Warper. It allows users to open one or more browsers composited onto a single canvas. The canvas can have an arbitrary and customised resolution, and individual browsers can be resized relative to the other browsers on the canvas.

User interface:

Open

File menu

Provides a context menu for meta settings - loading and saving configurations, setting configurations to load on startup. Configurations include browser size, canvas size, relative width of browsers, UI zoom position and the webpages currently being displayed.

Tabs:

Tabs work in a manner not dissimilar to tabs from other web browsers. They contain full configurations within Igloo Web, rather than just an individual webpage.

Tabsets, then, are collections of tabs that can be saved out into a single tabset file, and imported as a group.

New tab: Creates a new basic configuration. These can be either, the predefined default tab, an exported Tab (.ivwt) file, a saved bookmark, or a template. The default tab is defined by the ‘default tab.ivwt’ file located in ‘C:\ProgramData\Igloo Vision\IglooWeb\Exported Tabs’ folder.

Import tab: Load a previously saved tab into a new tab on the current tabset.

Export Current Tab: Saves out the current tab as an individual tab (.ivwt) file.

New Session: Creates a new tab set, with one instance of the current default tab.

Load Session: Loads a selected tabset (.ivwts) file

Save Session: Saves out the current tab set as a tabset (.ivwts) file, overwriting the previously loaded tabset file

Save Session as…: Saves out the current tab set as a new tabset (.ivwts) file

Set Current Session as default: Sets the current save file to be loaded on application startup

Save App Settings: Saves any Igloo Web application settings

Settings menu

Provides a context menu for current tab settings and general application settings. These mostly affect the end display

Number of Columns: Sets the number of columns on the Igloo Web canvas. By default each column has the same relative width and has a single browser or webview.

Window submenu

Window Width: A maximum width is set to prevent the window “spilling” between Windows displays. This has no impact on the output to the Warper.

Show Widgets: toggle to display the web toolbar on the Igloo canvas.

Draw Browsers Below Toolbar: toggle to shift the browser display below the web toolbar.

Columns submenu

Browser Dimensions: Adjusts the relative widths and heights of the browsers, and optionally add a vertical offset to the browsers.

Canvas submenu

Set the size of the output canvas. Choose from a preset, or create a custom size. Set new presets here.

Output submenu

Enable output conversions here.

Output: Contains two checkboxes to convert the output to equirectangular for the display of cubemaps, and a checkbox to show a preview for the output once the conversion is in place.

Channel submenu

Channel: Defines the name of the spout channel Igloo Web sends out on. This can be Igloo Web, Igloo Web Equirectangular, IglooCapture1-12, or a custom channel name.

Local Audio Mute: If enabled, mutes Igloo Web when NDI sender is enabled.

Youtube submenu

Youtube settings: Custom settings for Youtube videos. Two checkboxes, one to automatically play videos, and one to automatically loop Youtube videos on end.

Popups submenu

Popup settings: Define how Igloo Web manages popups - block popups, open popups in a new popup window, or open popups directly on the canvas.

User Agent submenu

Allows Igloo web to emulate other devices/browsers to enable certain features of webpages.

Controller submenu

Enable: Enables/disables controller support in Igloo Web.

Controller scales to Web View/Warper View: Determines whether the gyro is mapped to Igloo Web’s Canvas size or the Warper’s. Warper canvas size defined in AppSettings.xml.

Browser submenu

Set the maximum frame rate for the browser.

Audio submenu

Audio related settings for Sources, Channel mappings, Output device and Master volume. These settings are described here: https://360igloo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EDoc/pages/3293151235

General settings

App Settings submenu

The previous settings have all applied to an individual tab, where the following settings are applied to all tabs open in the application.

Application submenu

Disable Save Prompt: disables the prompt to overwrite tabs/tabsets.

Window submenu

Settings that affect the application window.

Show Console: Turns the console window on/off

Auto position Window: Turns on/off the automatic positioning of the application window

Max Window Width: Defines the maximum width of the application window

Controller submenu

Enable: Turns on/off the controllers globally

Buttons only: Ignores gyro messages and only uses button based messages

Only With Focus: Disables the controller when Igloo Web is not the window in focus

Warper Width & Height: Sets the canvas size for the warper to inform gyroscope conversions and autoscaling

Gyro YMin and YMax: Defines the input axes for the gyro tilt

Gyro Width degrees: Defines the curve of the screen with reference to a full 360 degree system. Set at 360, one full turn with the gyroscope would represent moving the cursor from one end of the canvas to the other end.

Gyro Averager: The number of frames the gyroscope is averaged over. Adjusts how smooth the gyro controls are

Scroll Sensitivity: Adjust the sensitivity of the emulated scroll wheel.

Igloo App Interface submenu

Defines communication settings with the Warper and Igloo Home

Warper IP: Sets the IP address of the Server running Igloo Warper.

Sending to port: The port Igloo Web sends OSC messages on

Listening on port: The port Igloo Web receives OSC messages on.

NDI submenu

NDI: Defines whether the warper is set to output it’s canvas on NDI. Has a setting to mute local audio where audio is being passed over NDI

Zoom submenu

Checkbox to auto-join zoom meetings

Matterport submenu

Checkbox to use local service - legacy support

Google submenu

Checkbox to try auto consent to Google T&C’s with a wait time parameter.

Chromium submenu

Checkbox to use incognito mode.

TUIO submenu

Define a tuio-enabled (touchscreen) region on the IglooWeb canvas.

Active Browser Highlight submenu

Browser highlight & Border width: Seen in the screenshot above, adds a green highlight to the currently active browser. Changing the webpage will only affect the active browser. Show on Output will pass this green border through to the Warper, if ticked.

Controls: Capture input controls for the warper:

App timings submenu

Allows the definition of an application target FPS. Allows the monitoring of the application FPS

App Mouse and Touch Settings submenu

Configures the mouse pointer when using Igloo Web (now found at the bottom of the settings menu)

Ignore mouse: Enables/disables mouse input in Igloo Web

Size & colour: Change the size & colour of the mouse pointer. Colour is done using a 255, 255, 255 RGB colour scheme

Pointer/circle: Changes the appearance of the mouse

Presentation clicker: Adds support for presentation clickers in Igloo Web

Disable Web Page Right Click Menu: Prevents web pages open context menus upon receiving a right click event

Show coordinates: Creates a small box on the Igloo Web canvas that updates with the position of the mouse both with the Window X,Y and the Canvas X,Y.

Control menu

This menu provides options for controlling how the output from Igloo Web is displayed on the Igloo Canvas.

The coordinate pad at the very top represents the Warper Canvas, and the current selected position on that pad determines the capture input’s position on the Warper canvas.

Size: Uniform x&y axes scaling of the input

Show/Hide (Open Eye/ Eye with cross): Click buttons that shows/hides the capture input on the Warper canvas

Bring to front & Send to back: Sets the order of capture inputs. Front most will display on the canvas if two inputs share the same canvas space

Auto-Scale: Automatically scales the input based on the aspect ratio of the input against the aspect ratio of the Warper’s rendering pipeline

Stretch to Canvas: Stretches the input to match the canvas width. Does not preserve aspect ratio

Flipped: Mirrors the input (as it’s viewed on the Warper canvas) on the Y-Axis

Inverted: Mirrors the input (as it’s viewed on the Warper canvas) on the X-Axis

X & Y Scale: Independent bars for x and y axis scaling

Wrap: Changes the position on the input that the input begins being drawn. Any content that would “spill” is instead drawn on the other side

Reset: Resets all application based settings

+/-: User interface controls. Zooms the User interface in and out without affecting what’s output to he warper.

</>: Web controls. Page back/Page forward. The refresh button next to it also refreshes the page.

Bookmarks: Quick-load configuration saving. Create a bookmark using the + button, and quickly load a config file by selecting a bookmark from the menu.

Help: Provides a version number and software references, as well as a shortcut to the Igloo Web settings folder.