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A Week of A-Frame 18

The Mozilla VR team met up together in London with contributors, Don McCurdy and DrawVR, who have been with A-Frame since the start. And @georational from down the street stopped by to say hi as well. There’s strong momentum heading into the second half of 2016; let’s do special things to finish off The Year of VR!

Projects

• alialmossawi built Where is Piers Morgan Disliked the Most? —

  D3 data visualization of the UK displaying dislike levels of Piers Morgan. (code).

• kanarula built Blanket Component —

  A intricately waving blanket of spheres.

• armthethinker built Head-Tracked Transformations —

  VR UX prototype of transforming objects’ orientations with your head to enhance VR experiences that don’t have positional tracking. Read the instructions here. (code)

• ericalayton built First Citadel —

  Citadel with waterfalls.

• armthethinker built Missed Connections —

  Visualizing Craigslist missed connections posts. Read the instructions here. (code)

• richardanaya built Keyboard Material Component —

  CSS-styleable VR keyboard compatible with WebVR controllers.

• VRWebIO built VRWeb.IO —

  Upload and share 360° images.

• kfarr built SFMTA Van Ness BART Model —

  Model of the new Bus Rapid Transit project in San Francisco.

• richardanaya built HTML Material Component —

  Component for rendering from HTML content to a texture. See also HTML Shader.

• richardanaya built Canvas Material Component —

  Component for rendering from an HTML5 canvas to a texture. See also Draw Component.

Media

• armthethinker

  wrote

  about head-tracked transformations for his Humane Virtuality internship.

• alialmossawi

  wrote

  Visualizing in VR using A-Frame and D3.

• thomasbalou

  wrote about building TumbVR:

  One Day Prototyping with A-Frame.

• xwalk_project

  wrote about

  using Crosswalk to build A-Frame hybrid apps on Android.

• armthethinker

  wrote about

  starting his Humane Virtuality VR UX internship.

• lizmhull

  tweeted

  a video of the Mozilla VR team giving WebVR demos in London.

• thomasbalou

  wrote about building TumbVR:

  One Day Prototyping with A-Frame.

• oscarmarinmiro

  tweeted a teaser of

  a video control component.

• rachsmithtweets

  gave a quick shout-out to A-Frame.

  during her Beyond Boxes talk at Front-End Conference

Contributions

• andgokevin made

  the registerShader API only require to set a material, rather than return.

• donrmccurdy preserved

  geometry data before geometries are converted to BufferGeometrys.

• amberroy implemented

  channels for the Firebase component.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-firebase-component)
• kalkut fixed

  errors due to unbounded variables.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-layout-component)
• amberroy fixed

  entities not being removed on disconnect.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-firebase-component)
• andgokevin implemented

  one-time component broadcasts.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-firebase-component)
• andgokevin implemented

  individual component property broadcasts.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-firebase-component)
• amberroy implemented

  broadcast interval configuration.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-firebase-component)
• andgokevin started unit tests

  for the Firebase component.

  (for ngokevin/aframe-firebase-component)