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Welcome to 👩‍🚀 Meta.js - The (Virtual) Space Library. 🚀

What is Meta.js and what it's not

In order to understand Meta.js you have to make yourself aware of the perspective it takes.

Meta.js puts the user in a fully immersive first person perspective in virtual reality. If you are about to create a experience in which the user moves and acts in virtual space Meta.js is your choice.

For example if you want to create a 3D image slider it's not.

How to start

As you may have already guessed you create Meta objects in Meta.js.

A Meta object is the concept or the idea of an object. It can be graphical object, a physical object ('body') or simply the idea of something that 'is there' (and might become physical or graphical present later).

Super abstract, lets get back to real life: You want a cube. Everyone wants cubes. All you got to do is create (instantiate) a Cube:

new Cube();

You don't have take care about any surrounding framework, or render loops or whatever. If you create a new Meta object, like a cube, all of that is already there.

But. You can. You can modify the renderer, the render loop or whatever. If you have the desire to do so.

You create a Cube by typing new Cube(), a Sphere with new Sphere(), etc.

Whatever you create you will always get a Meta object back, unless you passed a false argument as a last parameter to the constructor.

new Cube();

is equivalent to:

new Meta({

    graphics: new Graphics({

        geometry: new Cube(false)

    }, false)
});

This pseudo recursive principle is one of the main concepts of Meta.js that quickly leads you to results but still leaves you the option for customisation.

The Architecture

Void	World	Space	Cycle
Data	Physics	Graphics	Time
Meta	Body	Shape	Unit

Overview

• Introduction
• Meta
• Space
• Life
• Graphics
• Physics