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Fast-Track Beginner’s Guide to Building VR and AR in Your Browser 2026

Have you ever looked at a Virtual Reality (VR) headset and thought, "I wish I could build something for that," only to be scared off by the mention of complex game engines, expensive hardware, or high-level coding? The landscape of digital creation has changed. You no longer need a massive workstation or a background in computer science to build immersive worlds. If you can write a few lines of basic HTML, you have everything you need to become a VR developer. By using A-Frame , an open-source web framework, and the power of modern browsers, your "playtime" can turn into a gateway to the Metaverse. Why WebVR? WebVR (and its modern successor, WebXR) is built on a simple philosophy: accessibility . Unlike traditional VR apps that require massive downloads, WebVR experiences are just links. They work on your laptop, your smartphone, and high-end headsets like the Meta Quest or Apple Vision Pro. In this guide, we have collated a series of experiments—originally shared b...
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Popular posts May 2023

Microbit Remote Control CBiS Car I wanted to contol the CBiS micro:Bit Car via gestures whilst holding another micro:Bit (see Figure 1) I went for: - Button A in combinat... Coral Dev Board and Raspberry Pi This is the second of a planned occasional series of posts on playing with some of the current AI specific add-on processors for Intenet of ... Escape the Maze with a VR robot - Vex VR You don't need to buy a robot to get programming a robot, now there are a range of free and relatively simple to start with robot simula... Crumblebot - explorer bot? In an earlier post I played with 4Tronix's CrumbleBot to make an edge follower robot ( http://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.co.uk/... Programming Robots Virtually 4: Preview of Edbot Studio In previous post I looked at a few on-line robot simulators (see links below) Programming VEX Code Programming  iRobot Simulator Programming... Top read post on Blog in Feb 2020 Popular Posts Moving Eyes with an Adafruit Adabox kit...
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Top 10 viewed posts 2021 on the Robot and Physical Computing Blog

Speech Recognition in Scratch 3 - turning Hello into Bonjour! The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released a programming activity Alien Language , with support Dale from Machine Learning for Kids , tha... PS3 Controller to move a USB Robot Arm Guest Blogger Hiren Mistry, Nuffield Research Placement Student working at the University of Northampton. How to use a PS3 Controller to... Scratch Robot Arm It is not physical but CBiS Education have release a free robot arm simulator for Scratch.  Downloadable from their site  http://w... Tinkercad and Microbit: To make a neuron The free online CAD (and so much more) package Tinkercad  https://www.tinkercad.com/ under circuits; now has microbits as part of the list ... Escape the Maze with a VR robot - Vex VR You don't need to buy a robot to get programming a robot, now there are a range of free and relatively simple to start with robot simula... Easy, Free and no markers Augmented Reality - location based AR For a few years...
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Build yourself a Planet - Web VR

Using Mozzila's brilliant AFrame, a web-based Virtual Reality model of a planet with rings and include a moon with an image on it. Step 1. Basic Planet The first step is to set a new site in  Glitch.com  and then add a white sphere on a black background. <html>   <head>     <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/1.5.0/aframe.min.js"></script>   </head>   <body>     <a-scene>      <a-sphere position="0 1.25 -5" radius="3" color="white" >       </a-sphere>          <a-sky color="black"></a-sky>     </a-scene>   </body> </html>     Using the Aframe 'tags' to create a white sphere and to create a black background Step 2: Rotate the planet and add some colour Now we can add a surface to the ...
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VR robot in a maze - from Blocks to Python

Recently I produced a post about playing with Vex Robotics VexCode VR blocks and the Maze Playground. The post finished with me saying I would like to play with Python and do a Python version of it. Well it is actually very easy to do it. You can do it in two stages from the block code. First click on the <> icon (lighted in the figure above and it gives a further view producing Python code that changes as you change the blocks. The last stage is to convert to a text project (button at the bottom right of the screen. Example of the code. myVariable = 0 def when_started1(): global myVariable drivetrain . drive_for ( FORWARD , 100 , MM ) while not down_eye . detect ( RED ): drivetrain . drive_for ( FORWARD , 5 , MM ) if right_bumper . pressed (): drivetrain . drive_for ( REVERSE , 30 , MM ) drivetrain . turn_for ( LEFT , 20 , DEGREES ) drivetrain . drive_for ( FORWARD , 20 , MM ) else : if l...
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