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A Week of A-Frame 24

0.3.0 milestone burn-down list! While we still try to get the release out, augmented reality continues to creep in…

Projects

• dietrich built A-Frame AR —

  Experimenting with AR using A-Frame and getUserMedia.

• andgokevin built Outside Lands VR —

  VR preview of the San Francisco Outside Lands music festival (best viewed on desktop).

• FulvioRomanin built Home / Hope —

  Narrated journalism piece about humanitarian work in South Sudan. Featured on Italy’s top news site.

• nickwarner built RunJumpDev Slides —

  Virtual slide deck for an A-Frame talk at RunJumpDev.

• utopiah built Multi-player Tic Tac Toe —

  Prototype of networked Vives playing Tic-Tac-Toe. (video)

• davatron5000 built 30 Days of WebVR —

  One order of A-Frame and WebVR per day, all on CodePen.

• blairmacintyre built Look At and Billboard Component —

  Component to tell an entity to face another entity, or to face the camera. Improved version with bug fixes over previous look-at components.

Media

• dietrich

  tweeted

  an augmented reality prototype with A-Frame using getUserMedia.

• scenevr

  tweeted

  an A-Frame scene with interpolated network updates from a persistent server.

• donrmccurdy

  presented

  a lightning talk of A-Frame at BostonJS.

• nickwarner

  presented

  WebVR and A-Frame for RunJumpDev in Kentucky.

• ram_gurumukhi

  will be holding

  a Mozilla Reps WebVR workshop in Hyderabad, India on September 17.

• crcdng

  will be holding

  Imperfect VR Workshop about A-Frame in Guilford, UK on August 7.

• SonarSystems

  recorded

  A-Frame WebVR Tutorial 1 - Setting Up.

• SonarSystems

  recorded

  A-Frame WebVR Tutorial 2 - Drawing a Box.

• SonarSystems

  recorded

  A-Frame WebVR Tutorial 3 - Transformations.

• SonarSystems

  open-sourced

  A-Frame WebVR Tutorial source code on GitHub.

• utopiah

  screencasted

  networked multiplayer Vives playing Tic-Tac-Toe.

Contributions

• dmarcos fixed

  resolution issues on VR-mode mobile.

• ngokevin updated

  the roadmap.

• ngokevin fixed

  deep-seated bugs in our wrapping of document.registerElement.

• ngokevin fixed

  defined cameras by waiting for scene load before injecting default camera.

• ngokevin fixed

  camera userHeight offset being applied on mobile.

• ngokevin fixed

  proper caching and load order of <a-asset-item> such that assets are fetched only once.

• dmarcos reverted

  the fullscreen icon.

• ngokevin renamed

  the aframevr/media repository to aframevr/assets which is served on cdn.aframe.io.

• mayognaise added

  stereo support and custom meshes for the mouse cursor component.

  (for mayognaise/aframe-mouse-cursor-component)
• ngokevin implemented

  cursor: grab and cursor: grabbing for the look-controls component.

• ngokevin added

  support for mixins being attached at runtime.

• ngokevin fixed

  raycaster bugs if intersected objects don’t have associated entity.

• mkungla updated

  default eye level to 1.6m for camera and <a-camera>.

• bryik fixed

  duplicate event listeners in the hand-controls component.

• frederickdesimpel fixed

  entity child-attached event being emitted before object3D attach.

• mkungla readjusted

  cameras in all the examples.

• halfzebra fixed

  documentation about positioning.

• frederickdesimpel added

  documentation about entity event details.

• darkwing replaced

  a for loop with Array.slice.

• darkwing replaced

  Array.from calls with Array.slice.