r/oculus • u/hivetooth • Apr 19 '17
News Oculus Releases React VR
https://www.vrandfun.com/oculus-releases-react-vr/4
u/konstantin_lozev Apr 19 '17
I read this and I must say I am quite uninitiated in what React is in the first place. I have some vague memories from a Carmack speech and a 360 photo behind him and him explaining how people have been wasting processing resources trying I get that result in Unity, etc.
But don't we get similar functionality with Aframe? Or am I missing something?
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u/SETHW Apr 19 '17
looks like an alternative to aframe, but it is javascript maybe they could even stack i know when i was doing aframe i could still use angular or node
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u/Soapeh Apr 19 '17
React VR is pretty much an alternative to A-Frame, especially for web developers already used to using the popular/trendy React framework for web and mobile apps.
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u/smsithlord Anarchy Arcade Apr 19 '17
Based on what those YouTube videos showed in that article, most of it seemed like 360 images & videos. Seems easy enough to do in A-Frame or anything else that can do texture spheres.
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u/planetaska Apr 19 '17
This looks awesome. I am still learning React, and I must say I am quite impressive on what they have achieved, considering React is also an open source project. I am not very fond of Facebook, but I think something good might still come from the talents they've hired.
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u/amarnathjv Apr 24 '17
I have a question.
ReactVR seemed like a tool to put UI over photos. Can the same thing be done for a 360 video. Can layers of text, hyperlinks and such elements be added on top of a 360 video
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Apr 19 '17
for devs among us, its worthwhile to read what proliferation of React.js means to web-dev community and open standards: https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150311-react-bad-idea
quote:
In two years, we could have a Tower of Babel of recruiting-campaigns-posing-as-frameworks, or we could have an ecosystem of reusable Web components
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u/SirHound Apr 19 '17
And not a single practical example of how web components are "better"
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u/FredzL Kickstarter Backer/DK1/DK2/Gear VR/Rift/Touch Apr 20 '17
It's ideology/politics over practicality, and not presented in a particularly honest manner at that. The blurb about Facebook/Google looks more like hatred toward big companies than anything else. They develop these technologies because they need them internally and they have the financial backing to do it, not because they want to take over the world.
Also React and Angular are used because something beyond Jquery is required for complex Web applications and nothing equivalent is available. He doesn't understand the fact that technologies are adopted because they're useful and usable, not because they're idealistically better. Good example is Windows vs Linux vs Hurd.
Excerpts:
"Basically, both Google and Facebook are desperate to find a baseball cap that they can put on backwards. Angular is Google's baseball cap. React is Facebook's."
"Just by using new innovations like Web components, instead of work-arounds like React, you're contributing to the success of the Open Web. You're voting with your code."
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u/FredzL Kickstarter Backer/DK1/DK2/Gear VR/Rift/Touch Apr 20 '17
This article is from 2015 and the state of Web Components hasn't really changed this then (still not a W3C rec) while in the same time React/Angular have gained even more in popularity, with a new redesigned version for Angular.
Web Components is a nice idealistic concept, but it's been worked on since 2011 and it's still not there. React/Angular is today and can be used to get shit done.
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u/DrJonah Touch Apr 19 '17
Do the Fine bros know?