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aframevr
aframe
JavaScript2015–2025
aframevr / aframe

aframe

:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

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What it is

:a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

I love the idea of a-frame a lot- moving 3d content out of js & into the page (the way an extensie hypermedium ought to encompass things), but they dont seem interested in u…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-12-17 11:19:49 UTC to 2025-12-09 20:21:47 UTC.

0122015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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echelon·Jun 11, 2025
BabylonJS and the OP's own Aframe [1] seem to have similar licenses, similar number of Github stars and forks, although Aframe seems newer and more game / VR focused. How do Babylon, Aframe, Three.js, and PlayCanvas [2] compare from those that have used them? IIUC, PlayCanvas is the most mature, featureful, and performant, but it's commercial. Babylon is the featureful 3D engine, whereas Three.js is fairly raw. Though it has some nice stuff for animation, textures, etc., you're really building your own kit. Any good experiences (or bad) with any of these? OP, your demo is rock solid! What's the pitch for Aframe? How do you see the "gaussian splat" future panning out? Will these be useful for more than visualizations and "digital twins" (in the industrial setting)? Will we be editing them and animating them at any point in the near future?
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Or to rephrase, when (or will) they be useful for the creative and gaming fields? [1] https://github.com/aframevr/aframe [2] https://playcanvas.com/
In Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js
rektide·Aug 22, 2022
Good example! I was trying to use A-frame a bit back, another contender. https://aframe.io/ Somewhat ashamed to admit, I fell on my face a couple times trying to get the legacy cjs modules building with a couple toolchains & put my 3d web projects back in deep-freeze. https://github.com/aframevr/aframe/issues/3732 Briefly, it does make me a bit sad that React isn't the real dom. I doubt very much any of these solutions make the content actually available in view-source. Which, like, 10 years ago would get you 20 lashings for bad behavior. Now-a-days? Normal, react & elsewhere. Un-page content is anti-user.
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