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Re:Show HN: 360° and VR Video Streaming in HTML5 Tutorial, B... by joshkpeterson on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @12:28PM (#10932208)
Android Chrome as well requires user input (usually a tap) to play videos. So a less drastic change would for iOS to do the same, not just let videos autoplay.

Also, if you want to use the web audio API to control the volume of videos like this, there's a known issue that prevents you from doing that on Android Chrome if you source the audio from a <video>.

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Re:Show HN: 360° and VR Video Streaming in HTML5 Tutorial, B... by saspiesas on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:45PM (#10932860)
It's also worth noting that this is a direction I see mobile browsers heading in, not a restriction that may disappear at one point.
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