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Getting Started with React VR

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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788476607

Length 294 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

React

Concepts

Virtual Reality

Author (1):

John Gwinner

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Virtual Reality, Really? FREE CHAPTER

2. Flatland and Beyond: VR Programming

3. 3D or Reality in Dimensions Other than X and Y

4. The React VR Library

5. Your First VR App

6. Working with Poly and the Gon Family

7. Sitting Down with a (Virtual) Teapot

8. Breath Life in Your World

9. Do It Yourself – Native Modules and Three.js

10. Bringing in the Real Live World

11. Take a Walk on the Wild Side

12. Publishing Your App, and Where to Go from Here

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the basics of the React VR library, what components are in it, and the APIs and coding techniques they will be using to build your app. Enough background! Now that we have done this, in the next chapter, let's create an actual VR app.

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Authors (1)

Gwinner

Gwinner

John Gwinner is a Chief Technology Officer with nearly 2 decades of experience in VR. He developed a VR interface for CompuServe during the last wave of VR. He helped develop VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Web3D with a focus toward PCs, and put early versions of XML on the web. He was a returning speaker at the Game Developer Convention on 3D toolkits, AI, and VR. He was an early Kickstarter of a new VR Headset in 2014. Now that VR is definitely taking off again, John is once again at the forefront, with Vontic - developing VR interfaces to data, architectural visualization, and a bowling game that pits you against garden gnomes. He is a most viewed writer on Virtual Worlds and Augmented Reality on Quora, answering questions about VR and its future direction.

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