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A Week of A-Frame 23

It now looks finally realistic for an 0.3.0 release next week! The GitHub milestone has been updated.

Blair MacIntyre, a Georgia Tech professor researching augmented reality got A-Frame working in the Argon AR Browser:

Projects

• shopify built Shopify — City Shoes —

  Shop in VR! Pick up some trainers and see if they match your swagga.

• bryik_ws built Physics & Controllers Demo —

  Throw balls at blocks using Vive controllers and Don McCurdy’s physics.

• bryik_ws built Vive Cursor Component —

  Laser Vive controller cursor to point at objects with your hands.

• carbonfive built Vrogger —

  Frogger in VR. Hop and get across the road.

• andgokevin built A-Frame Statistics Dashboard —

  d3.js calendar heatmap of A-Frame GitHub Stargazers per day.

• andgokevin built Pokémon Stadium (Update) —

  Pokémon stadium updated with arena seating and Pikachu!

• VRWebIO built Design Portfolio —

  “About” pages in 3D space with neat transitions.

Media

• davidwalshblog

  wrote about how to

  Create a 3D Panorama Image with A-Frame.

• rvdleun

  talked at The Reality Lab in the Netherlands about

  VR Development (slides).

• utopiah

  screencasted his

  A-Frame bowling demo with Don McCurdy’s physics component.

Contributions

• dmarcos implemented

  better support for embedded scenes by removing toggling styles when doing <a-scene embedded>.

• dmarcos implemented

  support for fullscreen, flat experiences.

• dmarcos implemented

  camera.userHeight property which defines a height offset that is removed when entering VR to resolve flat vs. VR camera height.

• ngokevin fixed

  element prototype callback ordering issues.

• dmarcos fixed

  look-controls with mouse when dragging off the canvas.

• blairmacintyre replaced

  instances of hardcoded <a-scene> to support AR scenes.

• dmarcos added

  fullscreen icon when headset not connected.

• blairmacintyre fixed

  an error if browser does not support Gamepad API.

• ngokevin added

  material.visible property.

• ngokevin worked around

  Vive issues on Chromium when requesting fullscreen on canvas that is being presented to headset.

• ngokevin fixed

  systems initializing on createdCallback rather than attachedCallback.

• ngokevin updated

  default button colors for Vive controllers.

• ngokevin added

  camera.userHeight mapping to <a-camera>.

• ngokevin preserved

  document.registerElement polyfill.

• donmccurdy implemented

  physics support with Vive controllers.

  (for donmccurdy/aframe-extras)
• ngokevin added

  caching for .ply models.

  (for donmccurdy/aframe-extras)