{"id":3175,"date":"2016-03-12T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2016-03-14T04:29:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T11:29:47","slug":"mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2016\/03\/mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360-2\/","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\/press\/2016\/03\/mozilla-a-frame-powers-new-amnesty-international-virtual-reality-website-syria360-2\/\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}