New project for location-based AR within AR.js org

[nickw1]

Hi everyone, I've had little time for AR.js recently but as some of you know I'm primarily focused on the location-based side and contributed quite a bit between early 2020 and early 2023.

As someone who knows a fair bit about the location-based side of AR.js but is not really familiar with NFT or marker-based, I am considering starting a standalone location-based AR project within the AR.js org, entitled LocAR.js.

The advantage of this is that LocAR.js can be built, maintained and debugged entirely separately from the NFT/marker-based side. So for example, updates to newer versions of three.js and/or A-Frame, or other fixes, can be made without the risk of them breaking the NFT/marker-based side. Also it means the location-based side is more lightweight without any dependencies on jsartoolkit - just three.js and A-Frame. Later on perhaps something like AlvaAR could be integrated.

I'd propose Vite as a development/build tool as it is fast and lightweight.

The initial code would be based on the existing code in the main AR.js repo. No change to the license.

I'd probably be able to devote more time to AR.js if the location-based side was an independent project as suggested.

Any thoughts/objections?

[nickw1]

Hi everyone, as I haven't had any objections I've created a repo:

https://github.com/AR-js-org/locar.js

which contains the current location-based three.js code with some modifications.

Feel free to suggest any changes to the README / add PRs.