A-Frame Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• A look at WebXR and its frameworks as an important future of XR technology.
  dev.to | 2021-10-24

  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).

• Interactive game map over a web browser
  reddit.com/r/Frontend | 2021-10-05

  Yup, this was built with three.js - which is a layer of abstraction on-top of vanilla WebGL stuff - it's been around for a decade or so, but if you haven't heard of it before then I'm excited for you! So many cool new things to discover! There's also a-frame, which provides a layer on-top of three.js to give it an entity-component system (like Unity), and babylon.js - which is three.js's main competitor.

• What is JavaScript used for?
  dev.to | 2021-10-01

  With devices like Oculus Rift, which are now more accessible, virtual reality is becoming a thing again. We can use JS to develop new stuff for such devices. ThreeJS, aframe, React VR, and others are JSframeworks for creating and developing Virtual Reality.

• Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-08-20

  I think there is a lot possible with a ThreeJS approach for DataViz. For instance there is a project [1] to have R implemented in A-Frame [2] (a simplified HTML like framework for ThreeJS). 3D in AR/VR is definitely a whole new visual language space for education such as the work by FlowImmersve's TicTok Data Guy [3].

  [1] https://github.com/ACEMS/r2vr

  [2] https://aframe.io/

  [3] https://www.tiktok.com/@the.data.guy

• For legal and architectural reasons I'm getting my soon-to-be homestead (together with a several acre forest) modelled in 3D. Can I make a game out of it?
  reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-08-09

  I would look into A-Frame since you mentioned you'd like it to be web-based. I wrote this quick example just to show you how it could look: https://aware-incandescent-price.glitch.me (source code: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/aware-incandescent-price)

• LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences
  news.ycombinator.com | 2021-08-05
• The Frontend Hitchhiker's Guide: 3rd Party Code
  dev.to | 2021-07-17

  These technologies allow you render beautiful experiences on the web. Whether it be AR/VR with AFrame, exciting browser games with phaser or everything else with the likes of three.js and D3.js. These technologies let you tap into the power of the canvas and webGL.

• Designers, i want to learn AR/VR design. Where would recommend i start
  reddit.com/r/userexperience | 2021-07-08

  I learn by doing with this js tool : https://aframe.io

• Virtual Reality using IPFS
  reddit.com/r/ipfs | 2021-06-24

  Any static content can easily be loaded from IPFS, which makes toolkits like A-Frame fantastic for generating VR content to serve over IPFS

• Samsung Galaxy Watch: Controlling WebXR 3D Objects In Real-Time
  dev.to | 2021-06-20

  You can also visit the A-Frame website and explore other sample projects.

• 3D Websites
  reddit.com/r/Frontend | 2021-06-09

  A-Frame is built on top of Three.js and I'd argue it has a significantly reduced learning curve. You can always dip down to the Three.js layer once you need to/get to that point.

• A-frame add onclick function to a shader
  reddit.com/r/WebVR | 2021-05-30

  Hello, I have some code written in a-frame (https://aframe.io) that can be found at https://jsfiddle.net/AidanYoung/h0cb1nq8/

• Try to make my own Streetview with A-Frame
  reddit.com/r/WebVR | 2021-05-16

  I'm trying to make a site to show my 360° Pictures with A-Frame (aframe.io) Everything is working, but I'm struggle with one thing:

• How well does Unity support building VR apps for the web — accessible both from PC and mobile devices?
  reddit.com/r/Unity3D | 2021-05-06

  My question is, how well is Web VR supported on Unity? More to the point, how well does it support mobile devices, and would there be a tangible improvement in performance compared to Hubs, which is based on A-Frame (a JS framework)?

• How to get started with XR?
  reddit.com/r/LearnXR | 2021-04-28

  If you're familiar with JS, I suggest giving this a go - https://aframe.io/