Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 17 submissions in the queue.

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

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Hubs by Mozilla: A New Way to Get Together Online | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 36 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Friday April 27 2018, @03:25AM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Friday April 27 2018, @03:25AM (#672458) Journal

    Still, it's Mozilla, not Firefox.

    Firefox is the short name for Mozilla Firefox and is a web browser. Mozilla is the company that makes the Firefox web browser.

    If there is any air-gap between the to its strictly in your head.

    --
    No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Insightful=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   3  

  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday April 27 2018, @05:49AM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 27 2018, @05:49AM (#672501) Journal

    The air gap is that the group makes, or can make, more than one thing. Granted, they seem to have given up Thunderbird...

    --
    Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.