{"id":9257,"date":"2016-03-12T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T17:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2016-03-14T04:28:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T11:28:14","slug":"mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla A-Frame Powers New Amnesty International Virtual Reality Website #360Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International today announced a new #360Syria \u201cvirtual tour\u201d website showing the devastation brought by Syrian government barrel bombing of the besieged city of Aleppo. The website demonstration, called \u201cFear of the Sky\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.360Syria.com\">www.360Syria.com<\/a>), is built using Mozilla A-Frame technology.<\/p>\n<p>Websites like #360Syria, that allow viewers to take a virtual tour of the devastated city of Aleppo, are a significant new use case for WebVR. Technology gives people a voice where otherwise there is none. It brings a new level of visibility and greater levels of empathy to real-life situations.<\/p>\n<p>The #360Syria website comprises specially-created 360-degree photography, narration, sound recordings, 3-D data graphics and videos gathered by Amnesty-trained Syrian media activists. The site was created in partnership with San Francisco design and technology company Junior (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.junior.io\">www.junior.io<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A-Frame is an open source framework that simplifies WebVR development and enables easy creation of WebVR experiences with HTML. Because A-Frame is built around building blocks that can be extended and combined into limitless combinations, it provides a high degree of creative freedom.It is designed and maintained by<a href=\"http:\/\/mozvr.com\/\"> MozVR<\/a> (Mozilla\u2019s virtual reality research team) and optimizes for a smooth learning curve between ease-of-use for developers who are new to virtual reality technology and increased flexibility for advanced developers.<\/p>\n<p>At Mozilla one of our goals is to bring high-performance, responsive virtual reality technology to the open Web. We launched A-Frame, an open source library for creating virtual reality Web experiences, so that Web developers could create virtual reality websites from a single line of HTML code and bypass complex 3D APIs like WebGL.<\/p>\n<p>Our hope is that A-Frame provides a constructive contribution to a growing pantheon of WebVR development tools, helping to grow the number of VR Web developers and experiences.<\/p>\n<p><b>More information:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mozvr.com\/#top\">About Mozilla VR (MozVR)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aframe.io\/\">Getting Started with Mozilla A-Frame<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org.nz\/360syria-%E2%80%98virtual-tour%E2%80%99-website-reveals-devastation-aleppo-barrel-bombing\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty International #360Syria blog post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International today announced a new #360Syria \u201cvirtual tour\u201d website showing the devastation brought by Syrian government barrel bombing of the besieged city of Aleppo. The website demonstration, called \u201cFear &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47690,47689,30748],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mozilla A-Frame Powers New Amnesty International Virtual Reality Website #360Syria - The Mozilla Blog (Archived)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mozilla\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360\/\",\"name\":\"Mozilla A-Frame Powers New Amnesty International Virtual Reality Website #360Syria - 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