A Week of A-Frame 42
What's up with A-Frame, a WebVR framework for building virtual reality experiences, from Dec 28, 2016 to Jan 6, 2017.A happy new year! Just one year ago, WebVR was a small group of crazy people, and A-Frame had just been born. And just one year later, WebVR has support from all the major tech players, and A-Frame has sparked WebVR content creation for the web community to build stellar projects. In 2017, A-Frame will get the good word out to the greater web community as WebVR hits stable releases of browsers and grow its component and asset ecosystem!
For the first week of this new year: a smooth NYC snowglobe, VR graphing calculator, room scale data visualization, bow and arrow with tracked controllers, Daydream controllers, Project Tango sculpting. There’s been work on fixing various A-Frame bugs, investigating resolution issues on mobile with the WebVR polyfill, automating GitHub builds and releases, adding components to the Registry, and improving documentation.
Beautiful snow globe WebVR experience. Take a ride around NYC in a zeppelin. Made with @aframevr by @ronikdesignhttps://t.co/E7llCl8PDM pic.twitter.com/Iz8WH8XV44
— Jonathan Z. White (@JonathanZWhite) January 4, 2017
#WebVR Grammar of Graphics
— Micah Stubbs (@micahstubbs) December 30, 2016
built on #aframevr #shiny #gglplot2 #rstats
🌐 @Datatitian
📊 https://t.co/mOgW4y0796
🔀 https://t.co/oJHJWy0VJW pic.twitter.com/yNtqXGHuH4
ð¹ Two-handed bow and arrow with physics in @aframevr
— Kevin Ngo (@andgokevin) January 6, 2017
ð¤ Made by https://t.co/b9ajHxZ1Ec
ð https://t.co/SSKraRjZf3
ð https://t.co/TLWWRxKckw pic.twitter.com/4DyyAylNqO
Look at our new virtual calculator inside #MathWorldVR. Release is near! @TheDimensionLab @aframevr #WebVR #VR #HTCvive pic.twitter.com/gKY281iKwy
— Maros Pekarik (@maros_pekarik) January 2, 2017
Projects
Adit is ready! Explore data and create #dataviz in Virtual Reality with @htcvive @aframevr #WebVR #Shiny & #rstats https://t.co/OCJqLO1ufO
— William Murphy (@Datatitian) December 29, 2016
This might become really fun really quick: Exploring a Tango2WebVRRollercoaster idea ;) Design by dance? pic.twitter.com/Ho75bqesfR
— Fabien Benetou (@utopiah) January 2, 2017
Yeay I can "sculpt" in my virtual room https://t.co/ICOcAwEnEB (OK more like spread breadcrumbs)
— Fabien Benetou (@utopiah) January 2, 2017
@Datatitian
— Micah Stubbs (@micahstubbs) December 30, 2016
exploring some baseball data
uploaded my own csv just fine 👌
📈https://t.co/mOgW4xIwhy
⚾️ https://t.co/XHOwmGLIFF pic.twitter.com/SmtfkeiaJU
my surprise holiday project for my mom…https://t.co/adkIiWmF5B
— M Chen (@machenmusik) December 24, 2016
low-end: https://t.co/FJpUTJDxZO
Happy holidays!#aframevr #WebVR
Diving into @aframevr! Seems like a pretty dope setup for #WebVR
— Richard Mattka (@synergyseeker) December 31, 2016
More to come! #vr #webgl #threejs #webdev #edtech #gamedev #StarWars pic.twitter.com/AxwlIQ7ytY
I'm trying A-Frame + instancing. It renders 40,000 spheres in the video. It enables a large number of meshes rendering! #aframevr #threejs pic.twitter.com/fXgbZFJ7ft
— takahiro(John Smith) (@superhoge) January 2, 2017
Added an arcade cabinet to my #aframe vr nes experiment try it here: https://t.co/owAULdHk6K thanks https://t.co/5tNVLXtvy9 for 3d model! pic.twitter.com/ONKBdW4lqe
— Kieran Farr (@kfarr) December 31, 2016
Ringing in the new year with my first #WebVR experiment – thanks to @aframevr!!! https://t.co/jdWjnBM2sU #360Video #VR https://t.co/46rUHEZmmb
— Nathan Griffiths (@njgriffiths) January 2, 2017
This time @projecttango positional tracking in #webVR using @aframevr but this time within 3D scan of that room https://t.co/ooxkoec0Wv
— Fabien Benetou (@utopiah) January 2, 2017
.@aframevr I made a 3rd person camera🎥 to capture #HTCvive Play☃️ in #VR using #firebase #spectator components 🎉 https://t.co/0BBDxIPx1g pic.twitter.com/v83FUyNW1T
— Ron Dagdag (@rondagdag) December 31, 2016
.@aframevr I made a 3rd person camera🎥 to capture #HTCvive Play☃️ in #VR using #firebase #spectator components 🎉 https://t.co/0BBDxIPx1g
— Ron Dagdag (@rondagdag) December 31, 2016
Working on giving talks in VR with A-Frame, engine done, current progress: https://t.co/KcuGv9NYRI
— Ada Rose 💜🌍 (@Lady_Ada_King) January 4, 2017
a-frobot, the @aframevr GitHub build bot. It's alive! ð¤ https://t.co/GhAXXKw8GH pic.twitter.com/r9kg06xCCe
— Kevin Ngo (@andgokevin) December 29, 2016
Driving <a-porsche> in @aframevr with an iPad! Made by Korotun Vladislav. pic.twitter.com/xe0qpGzvF3
— Kevin Ngo (@andgokevin) January 6, 2017
Shiny A-Frame - R interface to WebVR via Shiny.
A-Frame Visual Studio Code Snippets
Components
Super-Handsð
— William Murphy (@Datatitian) January 1, 2017
Making grabð, stretchð¤ð¤, and drag-dropð interactions from Adit available as an #aframevr component ðhttps://t.co/aZRzjFZGRI pic.twitter.com/fPF9fvAwng
I've released A-Frame Outline component which is good for anime/game assets :D https://t.co/tTjqFXmFMG #threejs #aframevr #vr #webvr pic.twitter.com/oAxv4Wcw1i
— takahiro(John Smith) (@superhoge) December 30, 2016
Released A-Frame Deferred Renderer which achieves a good performance with many lights https://t.co/5jrhnV7AKv #aframevr #threejs #vr #webvr pic.twitter.com/Jex3VUDn5D
— takahiro(John Smith) (@superhoge) December 30, 2016
- Daydream Controller Component
- Auto-Detect Controllers Component added to Registry.
- Outline Component added to Registry.
- Deferred Renderer Component added to Registry.
- GearVR Controls Component added to Registry.
- Speech Command Component added to Registry.
Events
A-Frame's hands-on event in Tokyo! Coming soon! #webvr #aframevr #aframer_meetup https://t.co/krnAJDG7id
— Taiga (CEO of edoga) (@taigagaita1) December 28, 2016
@aframevr got a huge shout out in my @JSConfAU 2016 talk 🎉
— Jess Telford (@jesstelford) January 3, 2017
Watch it here: https://t.co/hXuVvpGML6 pic.twitter.com/dfpMw7czrl
Want to make 3D objects & draw in VR? Want to do it WELL while having FUN? Join us the 14! https://t.co/gab9hCFsYJ w/ @vr_human & @aframevr
— VRLabBrussels (@VRLabBrussels) January 4, 2017
Exploring #WebWr #MozillaAtMF17 @mozilla @aframevr @mdsbzalam @Mansi1526 #MakerFest2017 @brianking pic.twitter.com/58B2u4ITH7
— Mehul Patel (@rowdymehul) January 6, 2017
Articles
On the fourth day of Xmas, @Lady_Ada_King looks at the web’s past, present, and the future of the web https://t.co/7uXWEyPmZz #WebVR
— 12 Devs of Xmas (@12devsofxmas) December 29, 2016
Rewrote the @aframevr component API docs. Next will be a hand-holding tutorial on writing and publishing components. https://t.co/2RgFh1ZPxh
— Kevin Ngo (@andgokevin) January 6, 2017
Miscellaneous
WebVR will hit the mainstream user and developer. Having brilliant, passionate web developers exploring VR means exponential innovation.
— Josh Farkas (@JoshuaFarkas) January 2, 2017