🦖jurassic-file-navigator

• WebVR implementation of Jurassic Park's infamous 3D file system navigator display
• Online demo: http://jfn.herokuapp.com (this might break at anytime, free heroku dyno, no guarantees)

• Remember Jurassic Park and its super rad 3D file system navigator? Did you know it was based on a real application? "File System Navigator" was created in the 80's and never really saw use beyond the '93 dino flick.
• Now relive those memories in virtual reality with this WebVR experiment inspired by FSN and Jurassic Park

What does it look like?

how to use?

• clone and run npm install
• run npm start
• then load localhost:3000 in your browser
• Look around, purple boxes are directories, yellow boxes are files
• "gaze" at a purple box to navigate to the subdirectory
• That's about it

TODO List - clone this repo and help make your retro dreams into (virtual) reality!

• multiple tree view on one page instead of mulitple pages
• use asynchronous filesystem walking instead of readdirsync
• button to move up a dir (../)
• change filename / dir text labels from polygonal to 2d texture
• ability to remotely lock and unlock raptor dino cages

Resources:

• Built on aframe VR: https://aframe.io
• Ported over from other aframe experiments here: https://github.com/kfarr/aframe-playground