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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.
Source: Introducing Hubs: A new way to get together
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday April 27 2018, @04:01AM (2 children)
My thoughts exactly. Second Life in virtual reality. Not my cup of tea, but like Second Life it might be good for many handicapped people.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1) by hereweareagain on Friday April 27 2018, @04:07PM (1 child)
> Second Life
--Thanks for reminding me about that, I have a lonely/disabled friend that might benefit from it.
--BTW, YMMW when it comes to Mozilla Hubs - it hung my 2008 iMac running the latest Firefox HARD. Music was still playing, but I had to ssh in to reboot it.
--I'm willing to admit I just *might* be wrong... Are you?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 27 2018, @04:17PM
That's a pretty old machine. Maybe the browser-based Hubs is using too much resources for what it does, along with many other JavaScript-based thingies, but I don't think I'd begrudge Mozilla's shiny VR/AR/MR experiment (preview release) for not working on a dual-core pre-Sandy Bridge CPU with 1 GB DDR2 RAM [everymac.com].
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