The advent of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies are transforming how users interact with software and, in turn, the world around them. The possible applications of VR and AR are innumerable, and though the game industry has been an early adopter, these rapidly developing technologies have the potential to shift paradigms across multiple disciplines and industries.
In order to demonstrate how the MERN stack paired with React 360 can easily add VR capabilities to any web application, we will discuss and develop a dynamic, web-based VR game in this and the next chapter.
By covering the following topics, this chapter will focus on defining the features of the VR game and developing the game view using React 360:
- VR game specifications
- Key concepts for developing 3D VR applications
- Getting started with React 360
- Defining game data
- Implementing the game view
- Bundling the React 360 code for integration with the MERN skeleton