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A Week of A-Frame 29

The A-Frame team has started working on A-Shooter, a room-scale VR arcade first-person shooting demo! It is still in its very early stages in concept and gameplay, but we currently have guns, enemies, points, health, waves, and game state. These demos have brought back necessary improvements and fixes to A-Frame such as object pooling support, which are needed for performant bullets and enemies.

Also featuring initial spline-based enemy movement:

Other work includes hooking up the A-Frame Inspector with the A-Frame Registry, which includes community components and perhaps assets. Below we can see including mountains and text components from the registry from right from the Inspector.

And also with assets:

Projects

• andgokevin built Spotify Audio Visualization + Speech Recognition —

  Just say play and watch the audio visualization. Speech recognition right in the browser may play a large role in WebVR.

• utopiah built PEGylated Antibody Journey —

  Join the antibodies in this medically educated journey from the syringe, through the body, up to the resistance against harmful cells. Brought to you by UCB biopharmaceutical. These demos were run.

• wizgrav built Post-Processed Audio Visualization with Clubber —

  Showing off future A-Frame post-processing effects on an audio visualization using Clubber.

• andgokevin built Dancing to a Waveform —

  Dancing in VR to a waveform audio visualization.

• jesstelford built Click-Drag Component with Physics —

  Click and drag to throw a sphere into a pyramid of boxes. Knock ‘em down.

• lady_ada_king built Equirectangular Screenshot Bookmarklet —

  Take 360° screenshots from within a scene. Use as a bookmarklet

• g_marty built UI Components —

  A start of UI components including cursor feedback, target indicator, and volumetric light.

• andgokevin built Redux Component —

  Component for managing game state with single store, action dispatches, and reducers.

• rvdleun built Cardboard Maze —

  A two-player maze game. One person travels in VR and another guides through the maze.

• rvdleun built Travel Component —

  Gaze-based teleportation navigation component for Cardboard.

Media

• WIRED

  featured A-Frame in an article about

  Releasing the Infinite Monkeys to Make VR Great.

• taigagaita1

  started

  A-Framer.com, a Japanese A-Frame blog.

• utopiah

  is holding

  a WebVR workshop in Brussels during October 8-9.

Contributions

• andgokevin renamed

  getAttribute to getDOMAttribute and getComputedAttribute to getAttribute.

• fernandojsg implemented

  sound pooling.

• dmarcos made

  raycaster component automatically refresh when entities are added/removed from the scene.

• hitsmachines improved

  cursor component mouseleave reliability with multiple entities.

• donrmccurdy fixed

  cursor component intersecting itself.

• donrmccurdy fixed

  entity reattachments.

• dmarcos fixed

  tracked controller previous state.

• mkungla bumped

  devDependencies.

• andgokevin added documentation

  for Mongoose local server in Getting Started.

• shaabhishek fixed in documentation

  a template component example.

• shaabhishek fixed in documentation

  example of animating on cursor-fusing event.

• andgokevin added documentation

  for extendSchema and updateSchema.

• cvanw fixed in documentation

  FAQ links.