Igalia Developing Wolvic Browser To Succeed Firefox Reality

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Igalia Developing Wolvic Browser To Succeed Firefox Reality

A few years ago Mozilla started Firefox Reality as a browser focused on AR/VR mixed reality. Like Mozilla's other failed projects, Firefox Reality is being tossed into the scrap bin next to the likes of Firefox OS and Firefox Send. But thanks to the nature of open-source, the work is being continued on independently by Igalia with the new Wolvic project...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Igalia-Wolvic-Firefox-Reality

[Jabberwocky]

I wonder if Igalia will respect their users' privacy more than Google or Mozilla, the bar isn't very high.

[Kver]

Has Mozilla stuck with *any* project they didn't inherit from Netscape?

[Awesomeness]

Where were they when Mozilla looked for contributors?

Firefox WebXR didn't support linux the last time I tried it and I assume this wont either? the vr glasses it supports dont support linux either

This is for Android and Android is a distribution of Linux.

[-MacNuke-]

I think they might get some troubles with that name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvic_(mineral_water)

[tildearrow]

Ummm... the logo looks a bit like the Brave one...

[leipero]

Good luck with that, VR+Browser=reallydumbidea.

[Quackdoc]

Firefox WebXR didn't support linux the last time I tried it and I assume this wont either? the vr glasses it supports dont support linux either

AOSP is a better platform to develop for this, as it is more applicable, but it shouldn't be too hard to port it to linux when the time comes. I look forward to see where this goes

[coder]

Good luck with that, VR+Browser=reallydumbidea.

I assume the idea is to enable XR-based web apps. Not sure what's so dumb about that.