WebVR Articles
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VR development from the comfort of your regular environment
If you’re new at developing VR content, maybe you’ve recently switched to a Windows PC. Coming from Mac and Linux systems, switching to and from Windows can be a challenge. If this is your situation too, here’s a walkthrough of one developer's setup for working with virtual reality, that maintains the comfort of a familiar context and minimizes disruptive context switches.
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Showcasing your WebVR experiences
WebVR combines the powerful reach of the Internet with the immersive appeal of virtual reality content. With WebVR, a VR experience is never more than one URL away. Nevertheless, VR equipment is still expensive and not quite adopted for consumer use. For this reason, it is useful to be able to record your VR projects for others to experience and enjoy. This tutorial teaches you how to record a virtual experience you’ve created using the mirror mode in SteamVR.
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Having fun with physics and A-Frame
A-Frame is a WebVR framework to build virtual reality experiences. It comes with some bundled components that allow you to easily add behavior to your VR scenes, but you can download more –or even create your own. In this post, you can see how to create a VR scene that integrates a physics engine via a third-party component.
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A Saturday Night: Track and record movement in WebVR
Mozilla’s WebVR team has released a fun new virtual reality demo called A Saturday Night. Put your VR headset on, perform a dance, and share it with the world!
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A practitioner’s perspective on A-Frame: —Interview with Roland Dubois
In this conversation, we chat with Roland Dubois, a Virtuleap finalist and founding designer at studio.zeldman. Roland is the creator of gravr.io, a cloud service that allows you to create a VR profile and ‘avatar’ and synchronize your VR preferences and pre-sets. Gravr.io is built with A-Frame.
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Prototyping a subcontinent scale sculpture in A-Frame
Back in 2016, I submitted a concept in response to the British Council call for entries to their UK-India 2017 Digital Open Call. Titled “A piece of Art as big as India”, the idea was to create an augmented reality sculpture that the people of India could not only view via mobile devices but sculpt […]
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W3C Workshop on Web and Virtual Reality: A Look Ahead
The W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality was a massive success. In an unprecedented showing, all the major browser vendors and some of the biggest names in technology rallied around a single vision to help reshape how we will work and interact with the web of the future through VR.
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Basics of building 3D games on the Web
You might think that 3D games are harder to develop than 2D because of the extra dimension you have to take into account, but it’s easier than you think. We’ve recently updated the Games section on MDN with a collection of tutorials covering 3D development, with a focus on frameworks that offer shortcuts for developers […]
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Exporting An Indie Unity Game to WebVR
WebVR holds the key to the future of VR content access – instant gratification without any downloads or installs. Or, at least we think so! We’re building a multi-platform digital game subscription service called Jump that delivers native web games to desktop, mobile, console, and VR devices, and we’ve bet our entire business on native web […]
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A-Frame 0.2.0 – The Extensible VR Web
A-Frame is a framework that makes it easy to build virtual reality (VR) content for the Web. It provides: The ability to build 3D scenes with declarative HTML. Responsive WebVR scenes that work out of the box on multiple platforms. An entity-component-system pattern which promotes composability and extensibility. After three fun and busy months of […]
