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Akhilesh Thite
Akhilesh Thite

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Get started with VR programming for Metaverse

Hey! It's Akhilesh here. This is gonna be a short post. So, I was wandering on GitHub and discovered A-Frame. It's a web framework for building VR (virtual reality) experiences.

Get started

To get started, first you have to import A-Frame library via external script tag.

<script src="https://aframe.io/releases/1.2.0/aframe.min.js"></script>
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To create objects in VR, learn about their HTML primitives (a-scene, a-box, a-sphere, a-cylinder, a-sky, etc.) from here.

Here's a basic template to get started.

<html>
  <head>
    <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/1.2.0/aframe.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <a-scene>
      <a-box position="-1 0.5 -3" rotation="0 45 0" color="#4CC3D9"></a-box>
      <a-sphere position="0 1.25 -5" radius="1.25" color="#EF2D5E"></a-sphere>
      <a-cylinder position="1 0.75 -3" radius="0.5" height="1.5" color="#FFC65D"></a-cylinder>
      <a-plane position="0 0 -4" rotation="-90 0 0" width="4" height="4" color="#7BC8A4"></a-plane>
      <a-sky color="#ECECEC"></a-sky>
    </a-scene>
  </body>
</html>
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Output:
metaverse vr programming a-frame

Website: https://aframe.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/aframevr/aframe
Documentation: https://aframe.io/docs/1.2.0/introduction/

If you know any VR programming resources, then please feel free to comment down below, I would love to add them here with full credits.

Thank you!

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