rebeccaxam / aframepicam

Project the video stream of the Raspberry Pi camera onto a plane in A-Frame VR.

AFramePiCam

Project the video stream of the Raspberry Pi camera onto a plane in A-Frame VR.

Install

This demo dependents on Tornado Web Server and the picamera Please install on the Raspberry Pi:

apt-get install python-picamera
pip install tornado

Enable your camera in the raspi-config:

raspi-config

and check if the camera is working with

raspistill -o test.jpg

Checkout this repository on the Raspberry Pi:

git clone https://github.com/rebeccaXam/AFramePiCam.git

Run

To run the server on the Raspberry Pi:

cd AFramePiCam
python run.py

Press CTRL+C to stop the server.

A-Frame site

http://<raspberryIP>:8080/aframe/index.html

The video stream is on:

http://<raspberryIP>:8080/stream

The websocket to exchange messages between the A-Frame and the PI:

ws://<raspberryIP>:8080/ws

Enjoy ;)

aframepicam's Issues

Too heavy

I ran it on a dietpi and when I launch the vr site the raspberry heats up and the page doesn't load loops. Lighthttpd would be a much better solution than Vornado