aframe-shake2show-component

Tap the side of the smart device (qick shake trigger) to display a UI Modal for A-Frame VR.

shake2show-illustration

Integrated Shake.js - JavaScript plugin for mobile web browsers using device accelerometer.

Author: Alex Gibson

https://github.com/alexgibson/shake.js

Modified aframe-ui-modal-component

Author: IdeaSpace

https://github.com/IdeaSpaceVR/aframe-ui-modal-component

Properties

Property	Description	Default Value
trigger	Event to make dialog or menu visible: 'shake' or 'click'	'shake'
threshold	Default for shake velocity threshold for shake to register	5
timeout	Default for shake interval between events.	500
zpos	Position the dialog or menu on the z-axis. In meters.	-0.85
xoffset	Position offset value on the x-axis from center. In meters.	0
yoffset	Position offset value on the y-axis from center. In meters.	0

Usage

Demo

Browser Installation

Install and use by directly including the browser files:

<head>
  <title>My A-Frame Scene</title>
  <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.7.0/aframe.min.js"></script> 
  <script src="https://rawgit.com/rdub80/aframe-shake2show-component/master/dist/aframe-shake2show-component.min.js"></script> 
</head>
 
<body>
  <a-scene>
  	<a-entity shake2show visible="false"></a-entity>
  	<a-entity camera look-controls></a-entity>
  </a-scene>
</body>

NPM Installation

Install via NPM:

npm install aframe-shake2show-component

Then register and use.

require('aframe');
require('aframe-shake2show-component');

In browser testing

For console testing on desktop trigger shake event

<script>
var triggerShake = document.createEvent("HTMLEvents");
triggerShake.initEvent("shake", true, true);
 
function shakeMe(){
  document.dispatchEvent(triggerShake);
}
</script>

Dependencies

You need a camera component in your scene.

Your web browser must support the devicemotion event for this plugin to work. Shake.js uses built-in feature detection to determine if it can run in your web browser. It will terminate silently on non-supporting browsers.

http://w3c.github.io/deviceorientation/spec-source-orientation.html

Supported web browsers/devices

iOS Safari 4.2.1 (and above)
Android 4.0.3 (default browser)
Chrome 41+ for Android
Opera Mobile (Android)
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0
Firefox for Android
FirefoxOS Devices

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