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Welcome to the OpenTechSchool WebVR Materials wiki! This page will gather the materials required to participate to a workshop on WebVR. The workshop will be free and take place in Brussels, Belgium in May, June or July 2015.

3 levels

1. Beginner : Discovering WebVR (estimated total time 30 minutes)
2. Intermediate : Creating for WebVR (est. total time 130 minutes but target of 4 hours total)
3. Hardcore : Contributing to WebVR infrastructure (est. total time ∞ minutes)

Notes for tutor

• results of discussion of Wednesday evening 8/4/2015
• Participating to the webVR revolution
• emphasis on lessons learned
• http://www.meetup.com/Web-VR/ apparantly no video but slides for some presentations and articles
• http://www.slideshare.net/auradeluxe/up-and-running-with-web-vr-fall-2014
• Oculus best practices https://support.oculus.com/hc/en-us/articles/201721313-Where-can-I-find-the-Best-Practices-Guide-
• https://air.mozilla.org/virtual-reality-the-web-next-steps/
• make a dedicated generator http://yeoman.io/generators/ and/or a VM
• bring multiple headsets, consider a "bulk" order 1 week ahead
• map the community (Chrome, MozVR, /r/webVR , etc) aka "Who is WebVR" e.g. https://medium.com/@mccannatron/virtual-reality-vr-market-ecosystem-map-e6090af2e2af
• hardware developpers e.g. Facebook formely known as Oculus, HTC
• language developpers e.g. Javascript
• browsers developpers e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox
• standard developpers e.g. webGL, webVR e.g. http://mozvr.github.io/webvr-spec/webvr.html
• 3D framework developpers e.g. ThreeJS
• webVR framework developpers e.g. SceneVR, THREEX
• content distributor e.g. Valve SteamVR, Google Cardboard
• content creators e.g. Tatiana Plakhova and others
• add to https://github.com/OpenTechSchool-Brussels after following the appropriate template http://www.meetup.com/OpenTechSchool-Brussels/pages/How_to_start_a_workshop/ and https://github.com/OpenTechSchool-Brussels/material-template
• notify not just the local OTS chapter but also related communities e.g. Be.VR, iMAL, HSBXL, URLAB, JS Meetups (local Ember, Meteor, AngularJS, NodeJS, front-end groups), etc
• resources to use
• ThreeJS http://threejs.org with docs http://threejs.org/docs/
• MozVR prototyping recommendations http://mozvr.com/posts/quick-vr-prototypes/
• SceneVR http://www.scenevr.com/
• Interactive 3D Graphics Course With Three.js https://www.udacity.com/course/cs291
• http://webGLfundamentals.org
• Yeoman for Three.js https://www.udemy.com/yeoman-for-threejs/
• prefer very well documented code like http://mozvr.github.io/vr-web-examples/mockups-on-cylinders/
• http://webglstats.com
• consider the OTS Processing workshop
• at the very least propose a short diff only for people who did participate to that workshop to be able to benefit from it
• calendar
• Be.VR
• http://vrjam.challengepost.com
• editors
• WYSIWYG-ish http://threejs.org/editor/
• code overlay http://mrdoob.com/projects/htmleditor/
• webGL Shader http://www.clicktorelease.com/blog/live-webgl-shader-editor
• Oculus compatible live coding http://robert.kra.hn/projects/live-programming-with-three-and-webvr
• available hardware
• output : Fabien's ColorCross + smartphone, Pierre's DK1
• input : Fabien's bluetooth selfie shutter, Roman's Playstation bluetooth joysticks, Roman's bluetooth keyboards
• reddit suggestions
• http://www.reddit.com/r/WebVR/comments/30hw6e/preparing_an_opentechschool_workshop_on_webvr_in/
• http://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/311j0w/lessons_learned_for_a_small_vr_workshop/