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Getting Started with React VR

You're reading from   Getting Started with React VR Build immersive Virtual Reality apps for the web with React

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476607
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. What is Virtual Reality, Really? 2. Flatland and Beyond: VR Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. 3D or Reality in Dimensions Other than X and Y 4. The React VR Library 5. Your First VR App 6. Working with Poly and the Gon Family 7. Sitting Down with a (Virtual) Teapot 8. Breath Life in Your World 9. Do It Yourself – Native Modules and Three.js 10. Bringing in the Real Live World 11. Take a Walk on the Wild Side 12. Publishing Your App, and Where to Go from Here

Finding the API -- All the way from Mars


Now, we'll get the weather data all the way from Mars. No, I'm not really joking. Refer to http://bit.ly/MarsWeatherAPI, which describes the API and gives a little science background, if you are interested. This API is set up to consume XML data from, and return it in, a JSON or JSONP format. The following is the resulting data, which you can also get by referring to: http://marsweather.ingenology.com/v1/latest/.

{
  "report": {
    "terrestrial_date": "2019-04-21",
    "sol": 2250,
    "ls": 66.0,
    "min_temp": -80.0,
    "min_temp_fahrenheit": -112.0,
    "max_temp": -27.0,
    "max_temp_fahrenheit": -16.6,
    "pressure": 878.0,
    "pressure_string": "Higher",
    "abs_humidity": null,
    "wind_speed": null,
    "wind_direction": "--",
    "atmo_opacity": "Sunny",
    "season": "Month 4",
    "sunrise": "2019-04-21T11:02:00Z",
    "sunset": "2019-04-21T22:47:00Z"
  }
}

We can fairly easily turn this into our JSON object. First, let's test the...

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