Shaking Up The Christmas Greetings With A-Frame...

Let me try to sell an idea here. The price? Absolutely free. Well, besides perhaps some learning, which can be free, and comes with the guarantee of lots of fun... I promise!

So, this idea...

You know how every year, people are writing Christmas cards, you may be receiving some as well...

Wouldn't it be cool to gift someone some novelty as well as the Christmas greeting?

What I'm suggesting here can be described in 3 words:

So, why am I suggesting this idea?

Well, last year, I made a VR scene as part of a Christmas arts and crafts competition, and it's not like there was a rule against making anything digital, so 🤷‍♀️

It was a lot of fun, especially when I won and bought myself a clipboard from Etsy (the last one got a bit worn from the ctrl+C and ctrl+Ving) 😎

Not only was making the VR scene fun, but I got to practice my A-Frame skills!

If you've not heard of A-Frame before, it's essentially an open source framework that you can use to make VR scenes in the browser, meaning you can still enjoy these VR scenes even if you don't have a VR headset!

All you have to do is import it just like you would any other library or framework (such as via CDN or npm), and then you can use the elements that A-Frame has inside a HTML file to make your own VR scene!

Using my skills makes me happy, and I'm even happier when what I make makes other people happy!

On that note, I'd love to show you the Christmas VR scene I've made for this year!

I recently completed the A-Frame course on Codecademy, and one of the projects on this course was a solar system...

So I decided to Christmasify it a bit 😉!

Anyhoo, I hope you enjoy! If you would like to have more of a gander at the code, feel free to check out its repository! You are most welcome to use this or last year's VR scene yourself if you wish!

If you do, do let me know, make a developer's day 😄!

I also hope to make a new VR scene every year, so keep watching this space! I'll try to get better and better each year!

Finally, if you've made it alllll the way down to the bottom of this post, then I thank you ❤️!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 😁!