aframevr/aframe v1.4.0

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A-Frame moved to custom elements V1, Oculus Quest Pro support, and tons of fixes and improvements in both A-Frame core and inspector 👏

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Major Changes

• Move A-Frame to Custom Elements V1 API from the now deprecated Custom Elements V0 (fix #4262) (#5136) (@dmarcos)
• Move build system from Browserify to Webpack adding support for ESM (#5116) (@vincentfretin)
• Update to THREE r147 (@dmarcos @AdaRoseCannon @vincentfretin)
• Inspector improvements and bug fixes (@vincentfretin)

Deprecations

• Cardboard mode is now disabled by default as a first step towards deprecation. Magic window is now the fallback on mobile when native WebXR API is not available (fix #4814) (@dmarcos)

Enhancements

• Add support for Meta Quest Touch Pro controllers (fix #5138) (#5139) (@felixtrz @cabanier @dmarcos)
• Replace targetRaySpace with `gripSpace to position WebXR tracked controllers (#88e8db12) (@felixtrz @dmarcos)
• Add support for KTX2 texture compression in gltf-model component (#5101) (@jameskane05)
• Add a default for Draco decoder URL for the gltf model component (#5156) (@kfarr)
• Hide fullscreen button in desktop mode on iPad. Safari doesn't seem to support fullscreen mode. (fix #4841) (#5191)
• Detach inactive pool entities from THREE Scene avoiding unnecessary matrix updates and raycaster checks / hits (#5188) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Add support for WebXR foveation level. Only WebVR API was previously supported (fix #5108) (#5110) (@mrxz)
• Events emitted on a cursor entity also pass original MouseEvent and TouchEvent events when applies.
• Update unit test stack and fix test suite (#5091) (@vincentfretin)
• Display fullscreen button when AR / VR mode are not available (#ce23027d) (@dmarcos)
• Add xrselect option to rayOrigin property in cursor component so it can be used in a WebXR AR context (#5065) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• tracked-controls-webxr reference space is now configurable (#5040) (@msub2)
• New light component property to enable directional lights to track objects and update shadows automatically (#5025) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• New toneMapped property on renderer system. Flat materials can now opt out of tone mapping to look like light emitting surfaces. (#5029) (@AdaRoseCannon)
• Update hand tracking model (fix #5185) (@dmarcos @vincentfretin)
• Factor out and document throttleLeadingAndTrailing (#5151) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Docs improvements (@nikolas @dirkk0 @JGrotex @Kershawj @juunini @andrejsmelnikovs @csxiaoyaojianxian @Kirshach @diarmidmackenzie @Chabloz @vincentfretin @karunstha @janarthnk @Utopiah @daniel-schroeder-dev @Descent098 @oroju1)

Bug fixes

• Fix triggerchanged event not firing with Oculus Quest 2 controllers (#5149) (@msub2)
• Fix issue of loading screen displayed indefinitely (#5033) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Remove duplicated update shader logic (#6858ed66) (@dmarcos)
• Fix ray positioning for Oculus Quest 2 controllers (#5141) (@felixtrz)
• Fix reflection component removal (#5125) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix Quest 1 controller ray positioning (fix #5183) (#5190) (@vincentfretin)
• Set default dev port to 8080. Oculus OS / Browser now block port 9000 and it's no longer usable (#0f508ad2) (@dmarcos)
• Fix Oculus Quest 2 controller button animation and highlights (fix #5067) (#5103) (@kylebakerio)
• Stop render loop when a-scene is removed from the DOM (#5112) (@vincentfretin)
• Fix Github CI (#5092) (@vincentfretin)
• Don't emit granted events if DeviceOrientationEvent permission is not granted (#5079) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Fix removal of components with the name pattern component-name__sufix. Used on multiple instances of a single component (fix #5080) (#5081) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Exclude a-mixins when camera system tries to retrieve camera entities (fix #5023) (@mattrossman)
• Reset wasd-controls velocity when axis properties change (#5050) (@vulture-boy)
• Match screenshot component and scene encoding (#5157) (@diarmidmackenzie)
• Fix VR/AR buttons positioning in embedded mode (fix #5158) (@dmarcos)
• Remove examples warning messages (fix #5184) (@dmarcos @vincentfretin)