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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: 2) by opinionated_science on Friday April 27 2018, @12:50PM (2 children)
not only that - it crashes and keeps prompting "Refresh your browser!!" - which deletes all the useful stuff.
This is a project (perhaps like many others) in serious need of flatpak/snap/$WHATEVER/docker to ensure the deployment is the same as the developers have.
Recently though it has been behaving. Best features? (for me).
a) profiles
segregate all your activities - the interface for this is pitifully poor, but still useful.
you may ask why whole profiles rather than sandboxed tabs? Some sites you want to have different plugins settings etc...
b) sync
might be creepy, but being able to send a tab from my phone to phone -sweet!!!
c)DRM
one of the reasons for the profiles - at least it works ;-/
(Score: 1) by higuita on Friday April 27 2018, @02:55PM
If the "refresh your browser" is the question to start over with a clean profile to clean old jump... yes, it will delete most things ... but you should get that only if your profile have a old data... after starting up, it should be updated to a new version and stop asking that.
Maybe your profile is corrupt and you never really save the profile... try to start and quit, just to save the profile. If it continues do crash and ask that... you really have some problem
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday April 27 2018, @03:16PM
It still cracks me up when IE says, "Hey, we notice you've got some extensions here. Do you want to disable them?"
Or is that the difference between IE and Firefox* extensions -- IE extensions are all shit installed by other programs, that you don't want, while Firefox extensions are things you install yourself?
*Well, used to be, anyway, before they jettisoned the last useful feature Firefox had that Chrome doesn't.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"