Merseycode: Indira Knight - WebVR with A-Frame
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Description
Virtual Reality is an exciting new frontier in tech, it allows us to create unbounded worlds that people can walk around and interact with using their hands, to feel as if they were transported to another place. But as web developers what has that got to do with us?
This talk introduces web developers to VR with WebVR and A-Frame. WebVR is a Javascript API or creating immersive 3D, Virtual Reality experiences in your browser. A-Frame, supported by the Mozilla foundation aims to make cross-platform VR simple and accessible to everyone.
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Indira is a creative technologist and developer with a background in 2D and 3D animation, and a particular interest in emerging technologies, Web XR, and data visualization. She works with JavaScript, Python and Arduino to create prototype web applications and physical interfaces. She has been a regular organizer and participant in workshops and sprints to design solutions for set challenges.
She is actively involved in the development community. In 2017, along with a co-founder, she set up the Web XR London meetup group and is a co-organizer of LPWAN London. She was a speaker at Render 2018 and has run workshops on D3.js, A-Frame and emerging technologies at a number of conferences and events. She has just finished writing a book called Connecting Arduino to the web, which will be published in 2018.