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A Week of A-Frame 27

A couple weeks of backlog since half the team was around Asia. But the WebVR show goes on! More Vive demos and some unique applications such as with Kinect and green screen compositing.

Projects

• JimPalmeri built Towers of Hanoi —

  Solve the classic puzzle, Towers of Hanoi in the Vive, by the TLT Media Lab of Stony Brook University.

• thomasbalou built TumbVR with Vive —

  Tumblr VR gallery now with Vive support, music, and physics.

• kfarr built City Draw —

  Experiment with the Vive drawing city streets.

• nickwarner built Mandala —

  An abstract surreal scene in black and white.

• lady_ada_king built Equirectangular A-Frame Screenshot —

  Bookmarklet to produce equirectangular images suitable for sky spheres from A-Frame scenes.

• davebenigno built Spectator Component —

  Multiple cameras and renderers, and green screen compositing.

• rondagdag built Kinect with A-Frame —

  Hooking up tracking from the Kinect and rendering to A-Frame.

• scottsingercg built GeoPogo —

  Model exported from SideFX’s Houdini.

• andgokevin built A-Frame Presentation Kit —

  Official starter slides for giving presentations about WebVR and A-Frame.

• andgokevin built K-Frame —

  All of Kevin’s components and scenes now consolidated into one repository.

Media

• MicrosoftEdge

  announces

  development of WebVR support in the Microsoft Edge browser.

• kearwoodgilbert

  wrote about

  Experimental HTC Vive Support in Firefox Nightly.

• armthethinker

  wrote about exploring a virtual world with minimum nausea and maximum context in

  Environment Traversal in VR.

• andgokevin

  presented at JSConf China (NingJS) 2016

  Building Virtual Reality on the Web.

• utopiah

  showed off

  A-Frame AR in the Argon Browser

• mozilla

  currently featuring

  A-Frame on the homepage of mozilla.org

• rondagdag

  wrote about

  Posture Recognition using Kinect, Azure IoT, ML and WebVR.

• fabricus

  is running an A-Frame workshop

  at CopenX 2016 AR/VR Conference.

• cvanw

  presented with @whoyee

  about WebVR in Tech in Asia 2016 in Tokyo.

• tusharaoljgd

  wrote a introductory guide

  A-Frame: VR on the Web made super easy!

• MozillaIN

  held

  their first monthly call for their Grow WebVR initiative.

• ram_gurumukhi

  introduced

  WebVR at the Mozilla India meetup.

• ram_gurumukhi

  presented slides

  of WebVR at the Mozilla India meetup.

• CreativeBloq

  featured A-Frame in

  5 Hot New Ways to Use JavaScript.

• misslivirose

  presented

  A-Frame and WebVR at Coldfront 2016.

• rondagdag

  presented

  WebVR at DFW Frontend Development meetup in Dallas.

• AndreElijah

  showed off

  an Unreal Engine scene captured to A-Frame.

• sumantro93

  wrote about setting up

  WebVR in Fedora/RHEL 25 Pre Release.

Contributions

• ZeouterLimits fixed

  error for assets with no set src.

• andgokevin added

  A-Frame Inspector guide.

• dmarcos fixed

  tracked controls if mesh not defined.

• kevinzwh made

  performance stats easier to read.

• davidwalshblog fixed

  stats on Safari.

• davidwalshblog made

  object literal style consistent.

• andgokevin added

  unit tests for WASD controls.

• ZeouterLimits replaced

  custom GitHub pages script with one from npm.

• davidwalshblog made

  camera default height a constant.

• Dongeg fixed

  typo in documentation guide.

• patcat fixed

  documentation typo for a-cursor.

• ChrisCar fixed

  documentation typo for <a-image>.

• maniart fixed

  documentation typo for a-entity.

• mininao fixed

  documentation for cursor.fuseTimeout.

• seromehno fixed

  documentation link in introduction.

• d4rekanguok fixed

  documentation for add/removeState.

• dechov fixed

  documentation link in components page.

• Dongeg fixed

  documentation typo for a-sound.

• davidwalshblog tweaked

  documentation guides.