Chapter 10: Creating a Virtual Reality Application with React and Three.js

You're almost there—only one more chapter to go and then you can call yourself a React expert that has experienced React on every platform. Throughout this book, you've built nine applications with React and React Native. In this final chapter, we won't be creating a web or mobile application, but a Virtual Reality (VR) application with React and three.js. With three.js, you can create dynamic 2D, 3D, and VR experiences using JavaScript, and with the use of another library apply it within React. Although VR is still an emerging technology, the best use cases for VR are, for example, retail stores that want their customers to experience their stores or games online.

In this chapter, you'll explore the very basics of what's possible with React together with three.js and how it relates to React. The application you will build will be able to render 360-degree panorama images and...