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ViroReact is application-centric which needs to be extensible To run it natively on the device, run ./setup-ide.sh. This script
to other platforms also. It is also very easy to upgrade the will set up the app development environment for iOS,
data from 2D experience to 3D experience or AR. Android, or both.
3. PROPOSED SYSTEM
<ViroPortalScene>
<ViroPortal position={[0, 0, -1]} scale={[.5, .5, .5]}>
<Viro3DObject
source={require('./res/portalFrame.obj')}
type="OBJ"/>
</ViroPortal>
</ViroPortalScene>
Fig -1: React Native project structure
Effects include interesting effects such as Particle Emitters
A basic React Native project structure is shown in figure 1. It or Post Processing for videos. Viro's particle system create
includes an App.js which is the main Javascript file and configure quad emitters for building complex and
containing the logic for the application. Project directory intricate particle effects like smoke, rain, confetti and
contains an android, ios and js directories containing the fireworks.
Android, iOS and Javascript source codes respectively. A
miscellaneous React Native property file is also included i.e; The component directory includes Javascript files for
app.json. bin directory contains various scripts which including properties to the native app. It includes an
supports the project. index.android.js and index.ios.js are ARIntializationUI component, ButtonComponent,
the legacy files that points to App.js to launch the application PhotoSelector component etc. The effects directory contains
for Android and iOS respectively whereas index.js is the a javascript file effects.js which is a collection of functions
entry file that points to the main application in App.js. that configure each "Effect" in the app.
node_modules directory contain all the node modules as
specified by the package.json file. metro.config.js file The helpers directory contains a renderif javascript file in
configures the React Native CLI / React Native's metro which a Helper function is included for conditional
bundler and rn-cli.config.js file is used by older React Native rendering. It takes two arguments: condition (evaluates to
bundler which would be removed in a subsequent version of TRUE or FALSE) and content (JS content to render if the give
react-viro, also configures the React Native CLI . condition evaluates to true).
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The model directory includes Item files with data model for device around to get better AR tracking till the tracking
Effects, Models, Portals and Emitters that include particle status is TRACKING_NORMAL.
emitter for candle flame, smoke and Helper functions to add
these particle emitters. The redux directory contains <ViroARScene ref="arscene"
constants for identifying different Effect names from
ListView. Redux actions used to change app state based on physicsWorld={{gravity:[0, -9.81, 0]}}
events in the app. The res folder contains images in jpg and postProcessEffects={[this.props.postProcessEffects]}
vrx format. onTrackingUpdated={this._onInitialized}>
4. IMPLEMENTATION
An optional property of ViroARScene is postProcessEffects
that specifies which post-process effects to enable like
4.1. Building Block of AR scene grayscale, sepia, sincity, barallel distortion, pin cushion
distortion, thermal vision, crosshatch, pixelated. The
The main building block of any AR scene is optional property physicsWorld help to contain and process
<ViroARSceneNavigator> component in the App.js which the object which is physically enabled in AR scene. Using
acts as the entry point for AR applications. Each physicsWorld, properties such as gravity can also be applied.
SceneNavigator requires a property i.e initialScene which is The onCameraARHitTest is performed to find the correct
an object having a scene attribute with the scene component position where to place a new object being added to the
as value [12]. scene. It also returns the camera's current orientation, and
performs an AR Hit Test with Ray along the camera's
<ViroARSceneNavigator orientation. The object is then placed at the intersection of
the Ray and identified AR point is returned by the system
initialScene={{scene: InitialScene} /> along that ray.
ViroReact uses React Native constructs to create native AR 4.3. Placing a 3D Animating Object/Model to the AR
applications. Coding begins by importing React, StyleSheet Scene
from React Native and react-viro components like
ViroARScene, ViroConstants, ViroMaterials, To place a Model/3D object to the scene the js folder in the
ViroAmbientLight, ViroDirectionalLight, ViroSpotLight etc. root directory must contain a res folder that should have the
that the app will use. images of the model in .obj/.vrx/.fbx format (.vrx is a FBX
format extension passed through Viro compression script).
Create an ES6 class that extends a React Component which
cohere to the react component lifecycle. First start with the To represent positions and transformations for an object
constructor(), call the super()/parent constructor (in in 3D space, ViroNode [12] component can be used. It
Component) and initialize the state. Below that, "bind" this accepts an array of vectors (x, y, z) for representing
to the functions declared in this class so that it will reference position, scale and rotation.
this object. The render() function determines how the scene
is displayed. The Viro3DObject component helps to create 3D objects
that can be placed on the AR scene. These 3D objects are
4.2. Adding a Scene created from 3D structure/texture files. ViroMaterials
components consists a set of attributes which defines the
Viro Scenes behaves as box for all our UI Objects, Lights and appearance of an object's surface when rendered. Each
3D objects. There are 2 types of Scene components i.e model in a scene can be assigned one or more materials.
ViroScene and ViroARScene [12]. Each AR scene is a Usually all UI elements, and most basic 3D models, utilize
hierarchical tree structure of nodes. These scenes are only one material whereas complex 3D objects, represented
managed by a 3D scene graph engine. In the return by <Viro3DObject>, typically have multiple materials, one for
statement, ViroARScene is declared. It is the top level each defined mesh surface in the 3D object.
component since all the other components are children of
ViroARScene. <Viro3DObject
source={require("./res/object_bday_cake.obj")}
Sometimes the tracking will be lost in AR apps hence the resources={[require('../res/object_bday_cake/blinn1_Rou
callback prop, onTrackingUpdated, is used to call the ghness.png'),
_onInitialized() function which gets fired, when the app require('../res/object_bday_cake/blinn1_Metallic.png'),
receives AR Tracking state changes from ViroARScene. If the require('../res/object_bday_cake/blinn1_Normal_OpenGL.
tracking state is not NORMAL then show the user AR png'),
Initialization animation which guides them to move the
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application and view them through the interface provided. It It can also be used to compress image with quality (from 0 to
is like experiencing the product in real world without 1, where 1 is best quality), multiple image selection and
actually touching it. So, the customer can virtually wear this cropping of photo.
product to check if it suits them or not thus overcoming the
problem of not bring satisfied enough with the product. This
method helps in better understanding of the product like
when a customer actually wears the product in shopping
malls or stores and identifies it as suiting them.
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