aframe-video-billboard

1.0.2 • Public • Published

aframe-video-billboard

A Video Billboard entity & component for A-Frame.

Create an <a-video-billboard /> entity, streaming video from the user's camera to a plane in 3D space.

Note: Requires the latest WebRTC spec. This can be easily shimmed with webrtc-adapter

By default, will select the "back" facing camera.

Installation

Browser

Use directly from the unpkg CDN:

<head>
  <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.3.0/aframe.min.js"></script> 
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/webrtc-adapter/out/adapter.js"></script> 
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/aframe-video-billboard"></script> 
  <script>
    registerAframeVideoBillboard(window.AFRAME);
  </script> 
</head>
 
<body>
  <a-scene>
    <a-video-billboard position="0 0 -5"></a-video-billboard>
    <a-camera></a-camera>
  </a-scene>
</body>

npm

Install via npm:

npm install aframe-video-billboard

Then register and use.

import aframe from 'aframe';
import registerVideoBillboard from 'aframe-video-billboard';
registerVideoBillboard(aframe);

video-billboard component

Note: The <a-video-billboard> entity automatically includes the video-billboard component.

Schema

attribute type default description
deviceId string '' Select the specific device for display. If omitted, will attempt to get the rear-facing video stream. If rear-facing video stream not detected, will get the first video stream found. Note that if it is not a valid video device, nothing will be shown.
minWidth number 4 The minimum width in world-units to display the video. Video aspect ratio will be preserved.
minHeight number 3 The minimum height in world-units to display the video. Video aspect ratio will be preserved.

Events

event name data description
video-play {source, stream} source is an instance of MediaDeviceInfo. stream is an instance of MediaStream. Fired every time the source changes and video playback begins.

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1.0.2

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  • jesstelford