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What problem does this solve?
by obeid 5y ago
What problem does this solve?
- hobofan 5y agoI would guess from Mozilla's point of view: "Not leaving the Metaverse up to Meta"
- ape4 5y agoI think you'd need way more resources to bet Meta
- juice_bus 5y agoIt makes it look like Mozilla is doing something while not actually doing anything meaningful.
- PaulHoule 5y agoMozilla has long been interested in adding AR/VR capabilities to the browser https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebXR_Device_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebXR_Devic... At a certain point you might not have enough third party devs to really exercise an API or drive adoption and developing a first party app is a good way to get the party started. Assuming all the action takes place in a confined room it is not a particularly difficult problem to solve compared to an OASIS or Sword Art Online-like virtual environment which would have the problems of an open world game to solve.
- duxup 5y agoFun?
- bsg75 5y agoNeeding new revenue sources, even if they appear to be a gamble unlikely to hit.