Mozilla All Hands In Hawaii 2016 {Events}

ttw MozillaAllHandsInHawaii2016 December 2016

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Attended activities

• AllHands

AllHands

• takes a lot of efforts to make a browser
  • even more to make 2, 3, etc
    • Firefox
    • Fennec
    • Firefox Focus
    • Servo
    • Servo experimental build with WebVR support
    • etc
• thanks to the efforts needed Mozilla provides a huge network of tools and knowledge
  • e.g. bar discussion with some people of the release team working on Nix
  • plenty of similar discussions during the week
    • platform efforts
    • education efforts
    • evangelisation efforts
• WebVR is part of the Emerging Technology part of Mozilla Research
• WebVR is valued
  • mention in the keynote as part Mozilla research efforts
  • discussion about additional resources dedicated
• difficulty of judging emerging technologies
  • having to plan years in advance without established metrics
• price is still a pain point to solve, even with Cardboards
  • brought Cardboard from Belgium to offer to volunteers in India and Bangladesh giving workshops
• optimisation is required at all levels of the stack
  • layout (CSS, WebGL)
  • racing the beam (WebVR)
• devtools are required for WebVR also
  • upcoming in-VR version of the Aframe inspector
  • also required for testing
    • think HMD+6 dof controllers telemetry applied to Q&A
• quality content creation required
  • e.g. A-blast demonstrated then
  • proof of the potential of the tools
  • more components expected in the registry before the end of the year
  • asset store equivalent needed and coming but probably only once the registry is well established
• forcing to go up and down the stack requires mastery of a large technical network of concepts
  • presenting
  • compositing
  • layout
• WebVR is providing a stepping stone for WebAR

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Overall remarks and conclusions

• browser(s) as platform
• contacts in different areas for different needs (tech, education, etc)
• just the start of WebVR

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Other reviews or coverage

• my 360s http://fabien.benetou.fr/pub/360/AllHandsInHawaii2016/
• Fabien Benetou Recaps Mozilla's All-hands for NYC WebVR Hackathon & Workshop
  • video coming soon
• follow up on #WebAR integration for GoogleTango
  • https://twitter.com/berg_rickard/status/809075499670663168
  • https://twitter.com/judax/status/809075657120485376

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See also

• VirtualReality
• PIMVR (cf VirtualRealityInterface) & StoryboardVR demos

To do

1. improve Template
2. add map data (:ola-point lat= lon= text='':)