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A Week of A-Frame 9

Inspired by This Week in Servo, welcome to A Week of A-Frame! After a hiatus in A-Frame Feature Friday, we return to our regularly scheduled programming of A-Frame awesomeness here on the A-Frame blog.

Projects

• dkraeker built Escape Game —

  Can you escape?

• dkraeker built Escape 2: The Game —

  Can you escape? Electric boogaloo.

• mayognaise built GIF Component —

  A GIF component to display GIF animations as a material. If only there were a component to resolve whether GIF is pronounced with a hard-G or a soft-G.

• mayognaise built Mouse Cursor Component —

  A cursor component that uses the mouse rather than the Cardboard-style cursor that ships with A-Frame.

• mayognaise built Drag Look Controls Component —

  A controls component where the canvas moves the way you drag, and the cursor changes to grab-style.

Contributions

• dmarcos heavily optimized

  performance by making less trips to the DOM, caching parsed component data, and only flushing stringified component data to DOM on developer demand.

• ngokevin reduced

  memory usage with a geometry caching system.

• ngokevin heavily reduced

  memory usage by defaulting to BufferGeometries for the geometry component.

• ngokevin reduced

  memory usage by disposing of geometries and materials when no longer in use.

• johnrodney improved

  performance by reducing the sky primitive’s default radius and segments.

• ngokevin implemented

  a registerGeometry API such that each primitive has its own schema.

• ngokevin refactored and improved

  the raycaster and cursor components.

• donmccurdy enabled

  unit testing with Chrome.

• dbradleyfl improved

  GearVR support.

• cvan tweaked

  the Enter VR modal’s appearance.