Here at Mozilla, we are big fans of Glitch. In early 2017 we made the decision to host our A-Frame content on their platform. The decision was easy. Glitch makes it easy to explore, and remix live code examples for WebVR.
We also love the people behind Glitch. They have created a culture and a community that is kind, encouraging, and champions creativity. We share their vision for a web that is creative, personal, and human. The ability to deliver immersive experiences through the browser opens a whole new avenue for creativity. It allows us to move beyond screens, and keyboards. It is exciting, and new, and sometimes a bit weird (but in a good way).
Building a virtual reality experience may seem daunting, but it really isn’t. WebVR and frameworks like A-Frame make it really easy to get started. This is why we worked with Glitch to create a WebVR starter kit. It is a free, 5-part video course with interactive code examples that will teach you the fundamentals of WebVR using A-Frame. Our hope is that this starter kit will encourage anyone who has been on the fence about creating virtual reality experiences to dive in and get started.
Check out part one of the five-part series below. If you want more, I’d encourage you to check out the full starter kit here, or use the link at the bottom of this post.
In the Glitch viewer embedded below, you can see how to make a WebVR planetarium in just a few easy-to-follow steps. You learn interactively (and painlessly) by editing and remixing the working code in the viewer:
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Mozilla's vision of a VR-first web browser is ready for consumers to download and judge. Firefox Reality is a browser built entirely for virtual reality. While you may have read about desktop Firefox or Chrome adding WebVR support, Firefox Reality is a web browser that you actually use entire. VRDisplay is the central interface in the WebVR API — via its properties and methods you can access functionality to: Retrieve useful information to allow us to identify the display, what capabilities it has, controllers associated with it, and more. Work is underway to add WebXR support to Firefox desktop. The roadmap for the Firefox Reality browser is similar, with initial support for immersive browsing using WebVR, and WebXR support to follow. We will continue supporting WebVR until most popular sites and engines have completed the transition to WebXR. Want more technical details?
Ready to keep going? Click below to view the full series on Glitch.
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- WebVR and frameworks like A-Frame make it really easy to get started. This is why we worked with Glitch to create a WebVR starter kit. It is a free, 5-part video course with interactive code examples that will teach you the fundamentals of WebVR using A-Frame.
- Firefox is the first desktop browser to support WebVR for all users. Microsoft is also planning to announce support for WebVR in Edge web browser next month during the Edge Web Summit 2017 event. To experience WebVR in Firefox, find a web game or app that supports VR and click the VR goggles icon visible on the web page.
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