SherpaUI Information

Developers can now build VR apps in JavaScript thanks to Facebook’s brand new ReactVR. By utilizing React syntax and structure, it’s possible to compose VR web experiences from declarative components. It is built on top of React Native with added 3D component, 360 panorama images and videos, and advanced lighting control. ReactVR makes it easier for developers to start creating VR experiences, but there are still barriers to creating something useful quickly because of the lack of supporting tools and libraries for this brand new library. It takes time to learn how to navigate in 3D dimensions, transform components, and integrate multiple scenes. Our solution is SherpaUI, which makes getting into VR development easier than ever. Sherpa has discrete scenes with built in navigation, transformations, and templates so that you can create a 360 experience in VR within minutes. SerpaUI was created as a starting place to develop in virtual reality. For those less experienced in development, SherpaUI’s graphic user interface makes it incredibly easy to upload 360 images and videos to create various 3D spaces. For each 3D space, users can choose between various template frames to populate the four surrounding panels with their own information, images, and video. For those more experienced in React development we have made our project open source. Developers can fork our repo to use and modify our various template components. With an added dimension, it becomes difficult to navigate throughout the scene in the browser. That’s why we incorporated a built-in navigation system to smoothly transition between frames and jump to other 3D spaces. With this system, users can appreciate the whole 3D space with ease.