The Immersive Web and Mozilla Hubs

Matt Cool

Content/Web Dev

Community Programs

Creator Support

 

Community Manager @MozillaHubs

 

 

Immersive Web?

Hubs and Use Cases

Experiments and the Future

 Immersive Web?

  • Lives in a web page
     
  • Just the web! Web standards
     
  • 2D, AR, VR, mixed-reality - 'XR'

AR

ar.js using tags to display art work.  Link to post

VR

Above Par-adowski  Link to post

VR

Project Flowerbed: meditative gardening.  Link to post

Mixed Reality

Spatial Fusion: plane detect/passthrough. Link to post

Immersive Web

Why should we care?

Why Web?

Freedom to publish and distribute on the web.

Accessible with Browsers

A different creative medium to explore

Mozilla Hubs

Cross Platform and Extensible

Open Source Community

Respects your privacy and data

Social 3d spaces in Your Browser

How is Hubs being Used in the World?

Medical Training

NYU Langone Health Grossman School of Medicine
Mozilla Developer Livestream Recording

Greg Dorsainville and Kristen Rameriz

Remote Classrooms

University of Nottingham. Prof. Gary Burnett Human Factors

Conferences

Raumwelten

Three day architecture and media conf w/ ~700 attendees
Link to spotlight post

Brand Experiences

Sanrio Puroland experience by Japan based agency Gugenka

MLB TwinsXR by U.S based REM5 Studios

Road Safety Training

SolarFlare Studios RSA road safety

Hubs Powered Virtual Spaces

The Future of Hubs

Subscription Improvements

SELF-HOST

FREE TIER

HUBS-CLOUD

SUBSCRIPTION

Plug-in System

Improve Extensibility

hmd.link

https://hubs.mozilla.com/LieEdRA/taipeixr

Demo

Appendix

Three.js Growth

npm downloads

 

Creating a rotating cube with webGL