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After spending a few weeks with Babylonjs, I have to confess that I have become a very big fan and a bigger fan of its community and extremely powerful sets of tools, so forgive me for my bias. Babylonjs was first released in 2013 under the Microsoft Public License, having been developed as a side-project by two Microsoft employees, David Catuhe and David Rousset, with the help of artist Michel Rousseau as a 3D game engine, since then it has warmed it's way into the hearts of many developers, becoming one of the most popular 3D game engines for the Web. Being a robust 3D library, it provides very useful built-in functions such as Sandbox, Node editors, particle effects and the popular Playground, these functions help you implement common 3D functionality in efficient and accurate ways. It was developed using TypeScript language based on WebGL and javascript.
A-frame is an open-source web framework for creating virtual reality experiences on the web maintained by Supermedium and Google developers. Being based on top of HTML, A-Frame is accessible to everyone because HTML is easy to read, understand, and copy-and-paste allowing web developers, VR enthusiasts, artists, designers, educators and kids to use HTML to construct 3D and WebVR environments. In other words, A-frame can be developed from a plain HTML file without having to install anything, right there on your browser. With a simple script editor like Glitch, you can build an XR environment, create beaches filled with sand, construct celestial bodies to mimic the solar system… etc. The A-frame library not only supports the rendering of 3D images, objects, and models, it also includes event handling scripting. Gaze events, for example, can be handled to detect when a user is staring at a specific object. You may move parts around, activate physics for items to bounce off of one another, and even integrate 3D spatial sound (sound effects that trigger and get louder/softer as you get closer to certain objects).