aframevr/aframe v0.9.1

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Follow-up fixes and improvements to 0.9.0.

Released Hot Module Replacement loader for A-Frame: https://github.com/supermedium/aframe-super-hot-loader

Major Changes

• Detaching entity from scene will preserve component data. Add
  Entity.destroy() method to clear components and return their memory to the
  pool (#4121).
• Use controller index to determine left / right controllers which may impact
  cases like Vive Trackers. Will look to make this more robust soon (#4013).

Deprecations

• Deprecate utils.device.isOculusGo in favor of utils.device.isMobileVR (#4032).

Fixes

• Updated documentation guides for 0.9.0.
• Fix text antialiasing from distance (#4039).
• Improve vrdisplayactivate path for more robust navigation (#4093, 3c2f68e).
• Clean up object requested from pool by component to prevent pollution of old keys from other schemas (#4016).
• Fix initial camera position, rotation, scale potentially not getting applied (#4020).
• Fix utils.coordinates.stringify for zeroed vectors (#4017).
• Handle if both WebVR and both WebXR APIs are available (#4022).
• Handle null device from WebXR (#4030).
• Catch navigator.xr.requestDevice error (#4035).
• Fix animation for custom vec3 properties (#4051).
• Fix sound onEnded not setting isPlaying to false (#4061, #4097, #4101).
• Fix new materials not getting applied to obj-model recursively (#4062).
• Fix boolean values in .flushToDOM (#4069).
• Hide navigation buttons on Android (#4090).
• Fix Chrome gamepads by checking getGamepads on every tick for Chrome (#4116).

Enhancements

• Add Component.events API to define event handlers that are automatically attached and detached depending on entity lifecycle (#4114).
• Improve animation error message when passing invalid animation.property (#4122).
• Have Entity.remove detach entity to match HTML element behavior (#4082).
• Migrate hand-controls model to glTF (#3932).
• Add shadow.enabled property to shadow system (#4040).
• Add renderer.alpha property to renderer system (#4040).
• Add AFRAME.coreComponents for a list of the core components (#4064).

Performance

• Use a fork of anime.js that has memory improvements from Kevin (#4028).