Mozilla Hubs – Private social VR in your web browser

145 点作者 part1of2超过 4 年前

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haxiomic超过 4 年前

I've recently been getting into VRChat and I think something really special is happening there. VRChat has made it possible for users to create their own avatars and worlds (like Mozilla Hubs), including scripting and shaders. I'm absolutely _floored_ by the creativity and talent I've seen in abundance there. It reminds me of the early internet, where people are creating things for the only purpose of connecting with others. Similarly I feel lucky to experience this period in VR because I don't think it can last this way forever. It's also as addictive as we were led to believe in science fiction! Numerous people I've met there have clocked _thousands_ of hours in VR, so I'm fully sold that social VR is going to be a major part of the future*If you read this and decide to try it yourself, heads up: you have to do some searching to find the gems – the demographic skews quite young and male so you may find jumping into a random world is chaotic to say the least! It's also far from a polished experience. I like to spend time in quieter spaces like the sign-language practise world (it's amazing to be able to practise any time with real people!) and drawing worldsA world I came across recently that you might enjoy is "ShaderFes 2019" – it's a shader museum! [0][1]I'm less convinced more serious social VR will do so well initially as I suspect the surrealism and unconstrained creative-weirdness that VRChat makes possible goes a long way to diffuse the uncanny valley and awkwardness inherent with the current state of the technology[0] <a href="https://youtu.be/Em4JYyKu2d8?t=479" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Em4JYyKu2d8?t=479</a>[1] <a href="https://www.vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_f5a298f6-83e6-45ee-be58-4fafbbd38139" rel="nofollow">https://www.vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_f5a298f6-83e...</a>

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gfodor超过 4 年前

I wrote the story behind Mozilla Hubs a few months ago for anyone wondering “Why is Mozilla working on this?”<a href="https://medium.com/@gfodor/the-path-to-mozilla-hubs-2697e635490d" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@gfodor/the-path-to-mozilla-hubs-2697e635...</a>Also here is a talk I gave on the reasons social VR is important to work on for anyone who cares about a healthy Internet:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5w8xbeCc2Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5w8xbeCc2Q</a>

anonyfox超过 4 年前

I‘d prefer if mozilla would have finished Firefox’ transition to Rust/Servo to make their core product dramatically better and start regaining browser share.Seems that accumulating expensive C-suits, firing a chunk of their best engineers and building this instead was sexier.

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stevenicr超过 4 年前

This is really cool imho - and can have many different use cases.I poked around and considering diving into this more.Curious about the self hosted version, and I'd like more info about "You will need to provide a database" - type of database needed? link to some articles on connecting DB from one server to another perhaps?Quick scrolling for terms of use - not seen... I have not read all the docs, but did a search for the words porn and sex and did not find results - I hate to assume things - but at the moment I am assuming it's up to the individual room creators as to what kind of discussions can be had.. and if we self hosted, having some that got into adults only discussions would be fine?

andreyk超过 4 年前

Having tried this, I think it's super impressive. I used it to set up social events to welcome new people to our group, and it went quite well. Honestly not sure why it is not more known, it's miles ahead of stuff like online.town and anything else I've seen.

Hnrobert42超过 4 年前

Amusingly, this link does not work in Firefox Focus. It tells me to open the link in Safari.

donohoe超过 4 年前

Dear Mozilla, please invest more in design. This just looks like creepy no-limbed children dead-staring eachother.

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Multicomp超过 4 年前

This reminds me of Microsoft V-Chat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_V-Chat" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_V-Chat</a>

dataminded超过 4 年前

Dear Mozilla,Please allocate more time and energy towards becoming financially healthy. Please.There's so much demand for a trusted and privacy conscious service provider. Please look at email, domain registration, web analytics, etc, etc, etc.

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1MachineElf超过 4 年前

I don't really care for all of Mozilla's posturing and non-Firefox projects. If they're not going to improve Firefox, ideally by putting Servo into it, then I don't see a reason to use it over un-Google'd Chromium.

dandellion超过 4 年前

This is a really cool gimmick, but meanwhile... I've been using Firefox exclusively for 20 years but recently I had no choice but to switch to Chrome for work meetings because the microphone would get randomly disconnected in Firefox.I really hope Mozilla wake up and switch their focus back to trying to make the best browser possible and not wasting time with spin-offs like this one or I'm afraid soon there will be nothing left but Chrome.

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onelastjob超过 4 年前

The "focus" feature in Hubs is terrible. There needs to be a way to focus (aka view in full screen) on something without having to hold down the f key. If screen sharing was as good as it is in Zoom, Hubs could actually be a Zoom replacement for online classes. But not being able to share your screen in a way that the others can view full screen makes Hubs unusable.

appleflaxen超过 4 年前

this is technically impressive, and slightly fun initially, due to its novelty. But I have no idea what Mozilla thinks is going to happen with this that is relevant (let alone strategically important) to Mozilla.

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bassman9000超过 4 年前

<a href="https://github.com/mozilla/hubs/blob/master/PRIVACY.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mozilla/hubs/blob/master/PRIVACY.md</a>Your presence and communications are sent to Mozilla and other Room participants.

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azinman2超过 4 年前

I think it's hilarious that it says 'Communicate naturally' with a photo of 3 legless avatar bodies floating in a poorly rendered 3D environment.

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sarcastix超过 4 年前

Sure thing Moz' just make sure it works in Chromium.

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