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A Week of A-Frame 22

Tracked controllers has landed! Use the HTC Vive controllers with A-Frame. NPR has published a WebVR site, @rondagdag hooked up A-Frame to control a robot with Leap Motion, and we now have an initial community code of conduct!

0.3.0 is still in progress, and several members of the team will be out next week. We need to land improved embedded scene support, fix the resolution quality regression on VR mobile, implement built-in link traversal support, and refresh the homepage. We may publish an official beta build next week to hold folks over (depending on our progress).

Projects

• tylrfishr built Stand at the Edge of Geologic Time —

  A virtual reality tour from NPR of Rocky Mountain National Park. (code)

• andgokevin built MagicaVoxel: A-Frame —

  A-Frame in MagicaVoxel in A-Frame.

• andgokevin built MagicaVoxel: Pokémon —

  Face off against Charizard on the Pokémon Stadium.

• rondagdag built Earth Rover —

  Controlling a physical robot from outer space using Intel Edison and Leap Motion.

• andgokevin built Animation Component —

  New-and-improved animation system using components.

• bryik built Imagined Reality —

  Stereoscopic cubemaps, taken from winners of OTOY’s Render the Metaverse context.

• VRWebIO built Star Crossed —

  Piano and stars.

• richardanaya built Vive Starter —

  Simple boilerplate for a Vive project using the third-party aframe-webvr-controller component.

Media

• ilikescience

  demonstrated

  building a hamburger in A-Frame in front of a super-hyped crowd at BrooklynJS.

• fabricus

  wrote about

  Building Social VR Apps in AltSpaceVR with A-Frame.

• impronunciable

  wrote about his A-Frame tool for non-VR experts in

  GuriVR: Virtual Reality for the Rest of Us.

• dmarcos

  tweeted

  a demo of the new hand controls.

• fernandojsg

  tweeted

  a Gone Fishin’ message painted using A-Frame’s hand controls.

• andgokevin

  tweeted

  a render of A-Frame in MagicaVoxel.

• amadeuspzs

  tweeted

  their VR prototyping setup with a nifty A-Frame scene in the background.

Contributions

• dmarcos implemented

  tracked-controls, vive-controls, and hand-controls controller components.

• ngokevin added

  an initial Code of Conduct for A-Frame, adapted from the Rust Code of Conduct.

• ngokevin deprecated

  the undocumented Declarative Events (<a-event>) in favor of Event Set Component.

• dmarcos fixed

  single-property components with a default truthy value being falsy if an attribute is attached without a value.

• cvan bumped

  the WebVR polyfill.

• fernandojsg renamed

  the A-Frame Editor to the A-Frame Inspector.

  (for aframevr/aframe-inspector)
• davidwalshblog converted

  selectorAll property type return value from NodeList to Array.

• ngokevin updated

  all the documentation.

• ngokevin added

  the name of the offended component to the warning when providing a property that is not part of the component’s schema.

• ngokevin changed

  the default stats’ UI background color to gray.

• davidwalshblog added

  a warning if repeat='infinite' is accidentally used instead of repeat='indefinite'.

• ngokevin exposed

  the list of registered primitives in AFRAME.primitives.primitives.

• donmccurdy fixed

  a code typo when exposing the list of registered primitives.

• bryik fixed

  a code typo when detaching the vive-controls component.

• donmccurdy built

  Stack Overflow Feed Bot to cross-post Stack Overflow questions to A-Frame Slack channels.