You can capture scrolling events and do your own work with the information in them. It can do cool things, but you've got work to do.

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Virtual scrolling decouples scroll input from the browser's native scroll position, enabling precise control over 3D canvas scenes. The technique intercepts wheel and touch events, updates a scroll target value, and uses damping (exponential easing) to smoothly interpolate the current position toward the target each animation frame. This approach overcomes limitations of Intersection Observer and GSAP ScrollTrigger when working with full-viewport canvas scenes. The article walks through implementation details including clamping to prevent overscroll, mapping scroll values to camera movement and object scaling in Three.js, and critically, the accessibility requirements that responsible virtual scrolling must address: respecting prefers-reduced-motion, providing a custom progress indicator, implementing keyboard navigation (arrow keys, Page Up/Down, Home/End), adding ARIA labels and live regions for screen readers, and supporting mobile touch events.

Virtual Scroll-Driven 3D Scenes – Frontend Masters Blog