Mozilla launches Hello WebXR intro app for WebVR
Mozilla launched a new WebXR app called Hello WebXR, which is compatible with most headsets that use web browsers such as Oculus’s or Google Chrome...
Mozilla and Ubisoft partner on AI coding assistant Clever-Commit
Mozilla and Ubisoft today announced a partnership to develop Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant. Clever-Commit is designed to help programmers evaluate if a code...
HTC Vive Pro Eye: Why the company added eye-tracking to VR
At CES 2019 this week, HTC continued to push the high end of virtual reality forward. HTC added eye-tracking to its new Vive Pro Eye...
Understanding the power of the avatar will be essential for VR’s future
Digital self-expression has evolved rapidly throughout the past couple of decades, particularly thanks to the gaming industry and strange new social worlds like Second...
Social VR’s best platform is the open web, not walled gardens
That mainstream appeal for VR continues to elude the mixed reality industry in Western markets is a point I touched on last week when...
The WebXR API opens the door to a new breed of cross-reality games
Last May I pointed to WebVR games as one of the VR industry’s biggest potential sweet spots for generating widespread traction because the combination...
Adobe taps Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Mozilla to kill Flash by 2020
Flash will officially be dead in three years. Adobe today announced it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of...
Watch Mozilla preview WebGL 2, the first major update to plugin-free 3D graphics in the browser
There were a lot of announcements at Game Developer Conference in San Francisco today, but one flew under the radar: a preview of WebGL 2. Mozilla gave us a sneak peek of what will one day power games and other intensive applications in the browser.
Mozilla teams up with Humble Bundle to offer Firefox and Chrome users eight plugin-free games
Previously, all of these indie games were available only on PC or mobile. Now they all work in browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux without having to install any plugins.
Mozilla and Unity partner to make the browser one of Unity’s many available platforms
"This was easily the most requested thing from developers when we started talking to them [about web-based gaming]," said Mozilla game platform strategist Martin Best about bring Unity to the browser.