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XR Camp · A free school for the immersive web

Build the web you can step into.

Learn to build websites, 3D worlds, and virtual and augmented reality experiences that run in a browser. Free for everyone, starting from your very first line of code.

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Illustration of a woman wearing a VR headset, reaching into floating screens.
Illustration of a woman working at a laptop at her desk.

Our mission

XR Camp is an online school that gives women the opportunity to become web designers and developers, with a focus on the immersive web: 3D, virtual reality, and augmented reality.

It is built first for women in Latin America and China, including women who have never written code. Lessons are written in English, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese.

A graduate raising her diploma and cap at sunset.

Free, for everyone

XR Camp is completely free. There are no fees, no paywalls, and no accounts. Every lesson, starter file, and solution is in one public repository on GitHub.

It is created by women experts and by male allies committed to women’s empowerment.

Program

Learn from women experts and male allies from around the world, one 45-minute session at a time.

Why

Damon Hernandez

Damon Hernandez

San Francisco, USA & Helsinki, Finland

“Be the change you want to see.” Taking this to heart, with over 20 years in the immersive and web technology domains, I have dedicated my career to growing the use of these technologies around the world through presentations, workshops, events, meetups, hackathons, and other community initiatives.

In my continued pursuit to be a great ally to those in the community, this program’s goal is to enable any woman who is interested in web and immersive technologies to get her tech superpowers.

And for Sherine.

Now, step into the web you will build.

Keep scrolling. Everything below is built in 3D, with the tools you will learn here: HTML, A-Frame, and WebXR.

A 3D world in your first hour

You do not start with theory. In your first lesson you open a file, change a few words, and a 3D garden appears in your browser with your name on it. The garden at the start of the thread behind this text is a grown-up version of that first world.

<a-box position="-1.5 0.5 -4" color="#5b2a86"></a-box>
One line. One purple box. Your first step into 3D.

Eight phases, from your first click to professional

Every phase ends with a real project you publish. Lessons are planned in 45-minute sessions that fit around work, study, and family, and every phase stands on its own.

  1. Phase 0

    Welcome to the Future

    You will build: Your first 3D world, a timeline of the web, and a lab comparing three ways to build in 3D.

    • 64 sessions of 45 minutes · about 4 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 9 of 9 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

  2. Phase 1

    Become a Web Developer

    You will build: Accessible, responsive websites, published for anyone in the world to visit.

    • 144 sessions of 45 minutes · about 8 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 9 of 9 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

  3. Phase 2

    Become a Frontend Engineer

    You will build: Web apps that install on a phone, work offline, and use live data.

    • 145 sessions of 45 minutes · about 8 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 9 of 9 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

  4. Phase 3

    Become a Web3D Developer

    You will build: Interactive 3D experiences with A-Frame and three.js.

    • 138 sessions of 45 minutes · about 8 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 7 of 7 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

  5. Phase 4

    Become an Immersive Developer

    You will build: Virtual and augmented reality experiences that open in a headset from a link.

    • 111 sessions of 45 minutes · about 6 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 6 of 6 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

  6. Phase 5

    Become a Full-Stack Spatial Developer

    You will build: Multi-user 3D applications with accounts, data, and real-time connections.

    • 166 sessions of 45 minutes · about 10 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 8 of 8 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

  7. Phase 6

    Become a Professional Developer

    You will build: Production deployments, multilingual sites, and your own place in open source.

    • 73 sessions of 45 minutes · about 4 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 5 of 5 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

  8. Phase 7

    Professional Capstone

    You will build: A complete immersive project: researched, designed, built, tested, and launched.

    • 95 sessions of 45 minutes · about 5 months at 4 sessions a week
    • 5 of 5 lessons ready in English

    Open this phase on GitHub

How it works

  • Everything is on GitHub

    Every lesson, starter file, and solution is in one public repository. Download it, or fork it and make it yours.

  • Learn in 45-minute sessions

    Every lesson tells you how many sessions it takes and what you will have built by the end of each one.

  • Use AI as a tutor, not a crutch

    AI can explain almost anything. XR Camp teaches you to understand your code before you ask AI to change it.

  • Learn together

    Community will blossom soon.

Accessible by design

This site works with a keyboard and a screen reader, and it respects your device’s motion settings. You can turn the 3D scene off at any time with the switch at the top of the page. Everything you build at XR Camp will meet the same standard.

Get involved

Want to teach, mentor, translate, or write a lesson? XR Camp is built by women experts and male allies, and there is a place for you.

Contribute on GitHub hello@xrcamp.dev