The Immersive Web and Building in Mozilla Hubs
Matt Cool
Content/Web Dev
Community Programs
Creator Support
Community Manager @MozillaHubs
Immersive Web?
What is Hubs?
Building 3D Social Spaces
Note about links and presentation:
Immersive Web/Spatial Web
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Lives in a web page
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Just the web! Web standards
- AR, VR, mixed-reality - 'XR'
AR
ar.js using tags to display art work. Link to post
AR
passthrough AR. Link to post
VR
Above Par-adowski Link to post
VR
Project Flowerbed: meditative gardening. Link to post
Mixed Reality (MR)
Spatial Fusion: plane detect/passthrough. Link to post
Mixed Reality (MR)
Mixed Reality (MR)
Ukaton - Phillips Hues lights w/web (Quest Pro)
Immersive/Spatial Web
Why should we care?
Publish Freely/Iterate Fast
Ease of Access
Open Standards Protects Against Dominance of Proprietary Platforms
Roblox: 66.1 million DAU
22% year-over-year growth
Rec Room: 3 million MAU in VR
Walled Garden Spatial Worlds Traction
Apple Supports WebXR on AVPs
Quest 3 coming fall 2023
BigScreen Beyond
XREAL
HTC Vive Elite
Mozilla Hubs
Cross-platform and Extensible
Open Source Community
Social 3d spaces in Your Browser
Demo
What are people doing with Hubs?
Medical Training
NYU Langone Health Grossman School of Medicine
Mozilla Developer Livestream Recording
Greg Dorsainville and Kristen Rameriz
Medical Training
NYU Langone Health Grossman School of Medicine
Mozilla Developer Livestream Recording
Greg Dorsainville and Kristen Rameriz
Conferences
Raumwelten
Three day architecture and media conf w/ ~700 attendees
Link to spotlight post
Remote Classrooms
University of Nottingham. Prof. Gary Burnett Human Factors
University Spaces
Chonum National University MetaUniversity by BELIEVER
Brand Experiences
Sanrio Puroland experience by Japan based agency Gugenka
MLB TwinsXR by U.S based REM5 Studios
Brand Experiences
Road Safety Training
SolarFlare Studios RSA road safety
Hubs Powered Virtual Spaces
Building Your Own Spaces
Spoke
https://hubs.mozilla.com/spoke
Hold Right-Click + WASD
Scroll to Zoom
Example Space
The Future of the Blender Workflow?
The Future of the Blender Workflow?
The Future of the Blender Workflow?
The Future of the Blender Workflow?
Resources
Appendix
Three.js Growth
Creating a rotating cube with webGL
Subscription Improvements
SELF-HOST
FREE TIER
HUBS-CLOUD
SUBSCRIPTION