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A Week of A-Frame 28

A-Painter has been released! It’s like Tilt Brush, but open source so you can help us create more brushes. You can share your paintings online for anyone to view in 3D. Or you can take other people’s paintings and make them your own! Want to share a painting? Post it to this makeshift A-Painter gallery! Check out some paintings so far:

• The World’s First VR Guestbook, created in collaboration from multiple people.
• The Gentle Robot, by @feiss
• The Leap, by @feiss
• It Follows, by @feiss
• Demon, by @feiss
• Rose Bush, by @feiss

@msfeldstein has even already contributed a Rainbow Brush. After having released A-Painter, we are currently working on more cool demos.

Initial work on the A-Frame Registry has started. The registry is a curated collection of A-Frame components. In the future, this could contain things like assets, controls, effects, or shaders. The registry currently fetches metadata from npm and builds JSON files respective to each version of A-Frame. This data can then be used to populate perhaps a Unity Store-like UI in the A-Frame Inspector. Submit your components!

Check out some of the more physical demonstrations of VR this week. See full-body tracking and punching with A-Frame.

Projects

• mozillavr built A-Painter —

  Paint in VR with your hands, create your own brushes, and share your paintings over the Web! (code)

• utopiah built Foot-tracked Football —

  Playing football in VR using both your hands and feet, full-body tracking.

• jesstelford built Click-Drag Component —

  A component that makes objects draggable with the mouse cursor.

• andgokevin built Mountain Component —

  Generate terrains with <a-mountain>.

• andgokevin built Sun Sky —

  Sky with adjustable sun with <a-sun-sky>, taken from the A-Frame shader example. (code)

• andgokevin built Punch Prototype —

  Getting started with punching in VR.

Media

• fernandojsg

  wrote about

  A-Painter: Paint in VR in Your Browser

• feiss

  recorded himself painting a fox in A-Painter

• whiteboxamir

  wrote in Venture Beat about

  how WebVR will make virtual reality massively available

• diekus

  wrote an article about

  WebVR, feasting in the round table

• utopiah

  recorded

  himself using A-Painter

• lady_ada_king

  wrote an article about

  Optimising A-Frame Assets for Faster Starts

• misslivirose

  gave a talk at Coldfront16:

  Immersion in the Browser - Building the VR Web

• misslivirose

  gave a talk at Full Stack Fest:

  Virtual Reality is Here, in your Browser

• ram_gurumukhi

  wrote about his

  A-Frame experience in a nutshell

• michaltakac

  wrote about an article about creating a

  loading cursor effect in A-Frame

Contributions

• dmarcos bumped

  three.js VREffect to work with Firefox Nightly.

• msfeldstein added

  a rainbow brush.

  (for aframevr/a-painter)
• donrmccurdy added

  intersection data to cursor component events.

• andgokevin removed

  deprecated Declarative Events.

• andgokevin removed

  deprecated look-at component.