Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 34 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
M Ajmir GOOLAM HOSSEN
Rating
Course Overview
How to build Virtual Reality Websites with A-frame easily
Introduction
According to Techcrunch recent article in June 2016, Virtual Reality (VR) is the next big thing. Facebook also made the bold move to acquire Occulus Rift, which is a company that designs VR headsets, for a staggering $2 billion. All data indicate that VR is the next big wave of change in the Media landscape. We've witnessed an exponential growth in availability of apps in the decade following commercial production of tablets and smart mobile phones. We can foresee that in the next decade, innovation in VR will also grow exponentially and websites will have a VR version that will allow users to view from their mobile devices+headset. As the hardware is currently getting more popular and sales are on the rise, there will be a demand for VR online applications.
Content
The course was designed to teach the students about the latest technology for developing VR websites and the easiest way to make a start in designing such websites. The easiest technology that a developer or a newbie to use to make VR websites is the A-frame, developed by Mozilla. Although this technology is at an early stage, it is slowly gaining popularity. But it would require more developers to use it and build websites with the technology in order to further develop a systematic design methodology.
The first section is about using A-Frame and building on various tags to give the student to knowledge and skills to understand and use varioius objects on a VR scene. In the next sections , you will learn simple animations and use of cursors.
This will be followed by lectures on how to use Javascript and PHP with A-frame.
The course ends with simple projects such a Multicolored bubbles, Interactive Hotel rooms view and VR shopping page.
Course Content
- 8 section(s)
- 35 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Working with Objects
- Section 3 Animation and Cursors
- Section 4 A-frame with Javascript
- Section 5 A-frame with PHP
- Section 6 Project 1 - Design a VR page with colorful moving bubbles
- Section 7 Project 2 - Design a 3D interactive Hotel rooms viewing page
- Section 8 Project 3 - Shopping Page
What You’ll Learn
- Create scenes in A-Frame, Use A-frame with HTML, PHP and Javascript
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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AAndy Grossberg
Some of the videos are choppy and edited oddly. While the course covers the basics of the material I would have liked a lot more depth.
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SSenn Lee
Well, this course is perfect for learning how to create 3 D website with A-frame and partial server rendering (in this case of using xamp/php instead of nodes). Though this course is sufficient for training purpose there are many more things to do before it becomes useful. Thanks for the course. It gives me a good insight to develop 3 D stuffs. A fun course !
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MMichael Thornburg
I thought this was a good course for learning webvr , pretty in depth and some good real world applications, adding one or two more scenarios would be good, but overall well worth the time.
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SStephen Sladek
Course was alright for getting your feet wet into A-Frame, but doesn't take you much beyond that. The projects could have used better design methods, and some of the videos would cut off unexpectedly, and had excessive background noise from time to time.
