minimum viable three-d billiards

an e-sports simulation targeting the HTC Vive

take the Vive controllers and tap one of the spheres. watch those beautiful collisions!

hat-tip to @donrmccurdy for packaging up the very nice aframe-physics-system

to enjoy this experience on the Vive, follow the instructions at https://webvr.info/ to download and install an experimental browser build that supports WebVR. from there, click the Enter VR HMD icon on the bottom right corner of the browser window to enter the scene.

for reference, this experience was developed on the Aug 29 2016 version 55.0.2842.0 build of Chromium with the flags --enable-webvr and --enable-gamepad-extensions

to explore the scene on a 2D screen, open in a new tab and then hold the S key until the scatterplot and legend come into view. from there you can navigate using the W A S D keys and look by clicking and dragging with the mouse

this block is a fork of the roomscale scatterplot block which in turn is an iteration on the #aframevr + #d3js Iris Graph from @bryik_ws

for more A-Frame + D3 experiments search for aframe on blockbuilder search http://blockbuilder.org/search#text=aframe

Roadmap

• Vive controller haptic feedback on each controller-sphere collision
• flashing walls (on collision, or perhaps to the beat)
• a beat
• sounds on collision
• proper pool cues
• octohedron starting layout for balls
• pockets
• wall a-boxes that derive their dimensions from the component dimesions properties
• a nice green felt material for skeumorphic mode
• a rectangular solid play area, like a billiards table extruded into three-D
• turn-based multiplayer
• crafting system
• realistic water
• snooker mode