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Hubs by Mozilla: A New Way to Get Together Online

posted by mrpg on Friday April 27 2018, @12:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the You-can-make-eye-contact dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd:

Today, we’re excited to share a preview release of Hubs by Mozilla, a new way to get together online within Mixed Reality, right in your browser. Hubs is the first experiment we’re releasing as part of our Social Mixed Reality efforts, and we think it showcases the potential for the web to become the best, most accessible platform to bring people together around the world in this new medium.

[...] When using a Mixed Reality headset with Hubs, you’ll be able to interact online in a whole new way. Instead of through a screen, you will be spending time together in what feels like a real place. You can make eye contact, high five, laugh together, or just explore. It’s up to you, and it all happens right in your browser just like any other website.

[...] When in the room, you can see one another, move around, and pick up and throw virtual objects. And of course, you can hear each other’s voices with fully spatialized audio, so it sounds like you are in a real place.

hubs.mozilla.com

Source: Introducing Hubs: A new way to get together

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday April 27 2018, @01:37AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 27 2018, @01:37AM (#672423) Journal

    So, can I used mixed reality to display a less retarded user interface over the Firefox UI?

    Unfortunately not.
    It's only in the natural order of this world: you'll have the worst of all realities stewed together in that mixture.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by MostCynical on Friday April 27 2018, @01:57AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday April 27 2018, @01:57AM (#672426) Journal

    VR by Mozilla: it allows you to move around, while ensuring you trip over every piece of furniture you own.

    Every control and setting will require you to wave your arm above your head (which will mean hitting youself on the head, repeatedly)

    Eventually, all users will be so broken and brain damaged, the "normal" UiI will look good, and they will enjoy it.

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

    • (Score: 2) by Booga1 on Friday April 27 2018, @02:44AM

      by Booga1 (6333) on Friday April 27 2018, @02:44AM (#672440)

      Username checks out...