Top 4 JavaScript metaverse Projects

gun

247 17,784 7.2 JavaScript

An open source cybersecurity protocol for syncing decentralized graph data.

Project mention: gun: NEW Data - star count:17470.0 | /r/algoprojects | 2023-10-28

A-Frame

101 16,192 9.7 JavaScript

:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

Project mention: A New Era for Mixed Reality | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-22

I looked at it seriously for content authoring but gave it up.
The big problem is you cannot import images, textures, 3-d models and such from ordinary tools. You have something like constructive solid geometry to work with but only so much and there is a slider you can use to set the number of players and the more players the less geometry you can use.
I want to make worlds based in photographs (particularly pano and stereo) and art. McDonalds needs to put a Coca-Cola logo on the side of the cup. Either way it is a non-starter.
HW supports collaboration (more than one person shares the world) but https://aframe.io/ lets me make the content I want. If I have to choose one or the other I am going to pick the second.
My take on Meta Quest is that it seems highly successful as a gaming environment based on an app store but is skews towards single-player experiences. Like a lot of AAA games, the excellent Asgard’s Wrath 2 has some multiplayer tacked on but it is all meaningless like leaderboards and the occasional ghost that shows up in a procedurally generated dungeon.
Of course, Meta wants to make multiplayer experiences but somehow they just can’t do it.

SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
vircadia-web-sdk

1 35 5.8 JavaScript

Vircadia Web SDK - an SDK for the Vircadia platform that runs in your web browser.
WebAR.rocks.faceDepth

2 34 3.5 JavaScript

Insert your face, detected in your camera feed, in a web 3D scene in real-time.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).