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:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
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Add equirectangular screenshot mechanism #414

Closed ngokevin closed 7 years ago

ngokevin commented 8 years ago

Issue by jcarpenter Thursday Aug 27, 2015 at 08:28 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/aframevr/aframe-core/issues/31

This may not belong in the boilerplate, but it would be pretty slick to have an ability to capture screenshots of our VR worlds. In the past we've discussed equirectangular captures. They could be mapped on spheres and used as "snow globe"-style preview visuals for sites in a directory (as one example).

ngokevin commented 8 years ago

Comment by nickdesaulniers Friday Aug 28, 2015 at 22:07 GMT

readback of WebGL has to be enabled at context creation and has perf impact, as a heads up

ngokevin commented 8 years ago

Comment by jcarpenter Saturday Aug 29, 2015 at 01:27 GMT

@nickdesaulniers Would leveraging add-on capabilities change the equation at all?

ngokevin commented 8 years ago

Comment by dmarcos Sunday Sep 06, 2015 at 23:41 GMT

Not sure if this is a feature that belongs to the vr-markup library. At first sight it looks out of scope

ngokevin commented 8 years ago

Comment by jcarpenter Monday Sep 07, 2015 at 00:05 GMT

Yeah, this is filed as an "interesting idea". Definitely not a requirement to worry about right now.