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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.
Source: Introducing Hubs: A new way to get together
(Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Friday April 27 2018, @02:20AM
Watch the movie Cloud Atlas.
Initial mixed reality will be shitty. You're overlaying digital virtual reality over physical objects. It's the super advanced form of Beer Goggles. All of the tech we imagine being able to override billboards with scenery, override advertising audio with silence or substituted audio, is an implementation of mixed reality.
In Cloud Atlas, the mixed reality is so perfect that it can take a blank concrete room and turn it into an opulent apartment once you turn it on.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.