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Getting Started with React VR

Getting Started with React VR

By : Gwinner
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Getting Started with React VR

Getting Started with React VR

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By: Gwinner

Overview of this book

This book takes you on a journey to create intuitive and interactive Virtual Reality experiences by creating your first VR application using React VR 2.0.0. It starts by getting you up to speed with Virtual Reality (VR) and React VR components. It teaches you what Virtual Reality (VR) really is, why it works, how to describe 3D objects, the installation of Node.js (version 9.2.0) and WebVR browser. You will learn 3D polygon modeling, texturing, animating virtual objects and adding sound to your VR world. You will also discover ways to extend React VR with new features and native Three.js. You will learn how to include existing high-performance web code into your VR app. This book will also take you through upgrading and publishing your app. By the end of this book, you'll have a deep knowledge of Virtual Reality and a full-fledged working VR app to add to your profile!
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1
What is Virtual Reality, Really?
What is Virtual Reality, Really?
What Virtual Reality is and how it works
History of VR
User agency - interacting with the world through controllers
Rendering hardware
Summary
2
Flatland and Beyond: VR Programming
Flatland and Beyond: VR Programming
HTML and ways to move beyond the 2D internet
Making servers React
Graphics libraries — OpenGL and WebGL
Installation of Node.js and React VR
Summary
3
3D or Reality in Dimensions Other than X and Y
3D or Reality in Dimensions Other than X and Y
Beyond flatland - 3D concepts
Summary
4
The React VR Library
The React VR Library
JSX - the syntax of React VR
The next level - the details
Summary
5
Your First VR App
Your First VR App
Moving beyond hello world - our first VR world
Summary
6
Working with Poly and the Gon Family
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Working with Poly and the Gon Family
Polygons and why we like them
What is a polygon? discussion of vertices, polygons, and edges
Where to get 3D models
Summary
7
Sitting Down with a (Virtual) Teapot
Sitting Down with a (Virtual) Teapot
The teapot in Blender
Importing materials
Fixing the deck plates
Summary
8
Breath Life in Your World
Breath Life in Your World
The Animated API
Sound
Summary
9
Do It Yourself – Native Modules and Three.js
Do It Yourself – Native Modules and Three.js
Native modules and views
Something more visual
Extending React VR — Native Views
Summary
10
Bringing in the Real Live World
Bringing in the Real Live World
Going to Mars (the initial world creation)
Jason and JSON
Finding the API -- All the way from Mars
Building the image and status UI
Summary
11
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Going loco–VR locomotion
Building a maze
Animation — VR Buttons
Where to go from here?
Summary
12
Publishing Your App, and Where to Go from Here
Publishing Your App, and Where to Go from Here
Upgrading React VR
Getting your code ready to publish
Bundling for publishing on the web
Now that we've gotten it published, what's next
Monetizing VR
Where VR will go in the next five years
Summary

Polygons and why we like them

I think the confusion with "Oh no, not polygons" is that polygons, unless they are elevated to an art form, as in the preceding music video, can be a really crude way of creating something. For example, this does not look much like an apple:

Many CAD systems do have other representations such as Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS), which is a type of curve, or primitives that essentially have no polygons but are what they represent. A sphere, for example, may be arbitrarily smooth with no facets or flat areas.

The world would be boring if everything was just cubes and spheres. Unless it was Minecraft, then it would be pretty cool. Aside from Minecraft, many CAD systems build up more interesting objects via Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) to drill out and add the basic primitives to other primitives to make more complex objects. 

Why doesn't VR use some of these techniques?

Generally speaking, they are slow. Something has to convert the precise, accurate mathematical...

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