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React VR

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Re: React VR

#2

Post by news_to_me »

This is pretty neat.

The more I try to do Web VR stuff though, I get frustrated because there isn't yet a good way to design it "responsively" so that it will look right on normal flat screens, but become an environment in VR.

I also wonder about what the right UX for linking pages in VR is. I don't want to have to fist-bump some floating blue text. Maybe there should be a "link shape" or halo that draws the eye to certain features.

Re: React VR

#4

Post by giaour »

news_to_me wrote: post #2

This is pretty neat. The more I try to do Web VR stuff though, I get frustrated because there isn't yet a good way to design it "responsively" so that it will look right on normal flat screens, but become an environment in VR. I also wonder about what the right UX for linking pages in VR is. I don't want to have to fist-bump some floating blue text. Maybe there should be a "link shape" or halo that draws the eye to c…

Clearly, links should be represented as human-sized exposed pipes that users jump into like in Mario games.

Re: React VR

#5

Post by ryoshu »

news_to_me wrote: post #2

This is pretty neat. The more I try to do Web VR stuff though, I get frustrated because there isn't yet a good way to design it "responsively" so that it will look right on normal flat screens, but become an environment in VR. I also wonder about what the right UX for linking pages in VR is. I don't want to have to fist-bump some floating blue text. Maybe there should be a "link shape" or halo that draws the eye to c…

https://www.webvrexperiments.com/ has some good examples of desktop experiences that scale up to VR.

Re: React VR

#6

Post by rawnlq »

Why is there so much fragmentation already?

React VR backed by facebook (who controls oculus):

      
        
        
          hello
A-frame backed by firefox (who controls webvr implementations):
x3dom (supposedly successor to VRML)

Re: React VR

#7

Post by yodon »

Hmmm... no support for skinned character models (and looks like a lot of design and implementation work required on many fronts before this could support them). As cool as this is that makes it feel like a toy rather than a real product (even 3D that doesn't require humanoid characters tends to require deforming meshes to meet the visual quality bar customers expect).

I wish instead of trying to make their own renderer they had used their considerable react and coding skills and time to create a React UI for Unity3d and/or Unreal, which are what most serious app developers are using to create VR experiences (and which have pretty terrible/minimal/antiquated UI coding frameworks compared to what React offers)

Re: React VR

#9

Post by scarlac »

rawnlq wrote: post #6

Why is there so much fragmentation already? React VR backed by facebook (who controls oculus): hello A-frame backed by firefox (who controls webvr implementations): x3dom (supposedly successor to VRML)

React VR is just a library on top of WebVR, not a new standard. WebVR is coming, although it isn't "here" yet: https://webvr.info/developers/

It would be like saying that Angular, Vue, and React are causing fragmentation.

Re: React VR

#10

Post by news_to_me »

giaour wrote: post #4
news_to_me wrote: post #2

This is pretty neat. The more I try to do Web VR stuff though, I get frustrated because there isn't yet a good way to design it "responsively" so that it will look right on normal flat screens, but become an environment in VR. I also wonder about what the right UX for linking pages in VR is. I don't want to have to fist-bump some floating blue text. Maybe there should be a "link shape" or halo that draws the eye to c…

Clearly, links should be represented as human-sized exposed pipes that users jump into like in Mario games.

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