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Running a-frame without internet access seems impossible
Description: For a stand-alone setup, I used a laptop hosting an a-frame webpage and an Oculus Quest. The loading of the page takes ages when no (real) internet is available. It occurred to me that for a-text elements, fonts are being downloaded from the web. Also the oculus controller models don't load when no internet is available.
I think a better way of hosting these can be found, or a way to run a-frame without internet should be documented
- A-Frame Version: Not sure, the version that was available in July 2022
- Platform / Device: Oculus Quest (with Firefox Reality Browser or Wolvic Reality Browser)
- Reproducible Code Snippet or URL:
https://cdn.aframe.io/fonts/Roboto-msdf.json
For text you could point the text component to an URL where you host fonts locally.
For the controllers the URL of the built-in models is not currently exposed in the component schema.
If you're offline I'm assuming you are not pulling A-Frame from the CDN but serving your own. You could create custom builds, modify the base URL from oculus-touch-controls and serve the models locally.
FWIW as I need an offline session few weeks ago I updated the URL from the build. Not clean but worked for both text and controllers.
It would be also interesting to have generic self-contained builds so when having the a-frame js locally hosted it does not serve user data (IP, else) to third parties, in order to be compliant with GDPR and similar privacy laws.
