A-Frame Showcase needs updating

[diarmidmackenzie]

Tracking as an issue intially - will follow with a PR when scope is clear.

Showcase has not been maintained in years, has a load of broken links, and doesn't link to a range of more recent projects that show what A-Frame can do.

Goal is to:

• remove broken links
• add some examples of current sites that use A-Frame
• as a by-product, make this an attractive place for new A-Frame projects to be listed, which should help to better maintain the showcase going forwards.

Need to compile 2 lists:

• Existing links that are dead & should be removed (unless the target is expected to be revived soon, e..g. A-Painterm in which case they should stay)
• New links that we should add. I can poll on the WebXR discord aframe channel to see what peope suggest should be linked to, as up-to-date exampls of what A-Frame can do.

Existing Links

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New links

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[diarmidmackenzie]

Existing links - Analysis

To keep

Moon Rider - keep

Sound Boxing - still appears live. keep.

TowerMax Fitness - still live. keep

CERN CMS / LHR tour - page loads and renders a 3D view (although I couldn't get interaction to work). keep.

Stand at the Edge of Geologic Time - seems to still work. Keep.

A-Painter - Revived a couple of years ago. Vincent says it needs a fix to make it work, but nearly there. Keep.

To remove

Supermedium - page content refers to the Supermedium browser, supermedium.com now hosts an AI model generator. Not really an A-Frame Showcase item. Propose to remove.

Supercraft - link still accessible, but supercratft is deprecated. remove

Musical Forest - link works, but page says "This project is now archived" - remove

Inside Music - link works, project archived in 2022. remove

Beat Saver Viewer - page loads, but hits a CORS fetch error. Supermedium project - suspect nobody is going to revive this. remove

2019 Chevrolet Silverado - 403 error. Remove

Hidden Mickey - redirects to a generic 2d Mickey Mouse page. Remove

2019 Ford Expedition - redirects to a generic Ford Expedition page. Remove

Hubs by Mozilla - end of support. Remove.

Access Mars - "This experiment is no longer active, but you can still learn about it on this page." - remove

Samsung VR - dead link. Remove.

Escape Room Movie Challenge - Dead link. Remove.

2019 Toyota Camry - Links to a generic Totota Camry page. Config tool is 2D and does not use A-Frame. Remove.

[vincentfretin]

For A-Painter, the current hosted version doesn't work in VR, I can't draw anything on Quest 2 or Quest 3. With the version from aframevr/a-painter#279 it works great.

Hubs is still maintained by the new hubs foundation https://hubsfoundation.org/ but there is no public instance anymore, you need to deploy your own with the kubernetes helm chart. It uses a very old forked trimmed version of aframe, and it has another mode to use bitECS instead of aframe as well, but not currently the default. I agree to remove.

[diarmidmackenzie]

New Links

If you want your A-Frame site added to the showcase as part of this PR, you will need to provide the following info:

• Title
• Author
• Description (5-20 words)
• Image - 2:1 aspect ratio, 512px x 256px
• Link

Please add a comment below this PR for your A-Frame site/page to be considered for inclusion

[jinglechen2287]

Thanks for this initiative! I would love to have Strata (https://strata-xr.com/) included. It uses A-Frame internally. See https://strata-xr.com/attributions for more details :)

• Title: Strata
• Author: Jingle Chen
• Description: A web-based, real-time, and collaborative spatial computing tool. Think Figma but for XR.
• Image:

• Link: https://strata-xr.com/

[DougReeder]

Hubs has been spun off from Mozilla and is maintained; the Mozilla Hubs entry should be replace with this:

Title: Hubs
Author: Hubs Foundation
Description: A virtual collaboration platform that lets you create your own 3D spaces. Invite anyone with a URL — no account needed.
Image: [the old image is fine]
Link: https://demo.hubsfoundation.org/

[DougReeder]

I think my Barrier Mage is worth considering:

Title: Barrier Mage
Author: Doug Reeder
Description: Draw mystic symbols to burn, protect, or detect & drive off fantastic creatures! [headset required]
Image: https://dougreeder.github.io/barrier-mage/assets/pentacle-ViolentCloud.jpg
Link: https://dougreeder.github.io/barrier-mage/