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Kearwood "Kip" Gilbert

Kearwood "Kip" Gilbert

Kip is a Platform Engineer on the Mozilla VR team and an open-source Game Developer.

Vancouver, Canada •
5 posts •

Experimental HTC Vive Support in Firefox Nightly

As of September 1st, Firefox Nightly [https://nightly.mozilla.org/] will include experimental support for the HTC Vive [https://www.htcvive.com/] headsets through the OpenVR API [https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr]. This

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WebVR 1.0 available in Firefox Nightly

The WebVR API is a set of DOM interfaces that enable WebGL rendering into Virtual Reality headsets and access to the various sensors for orientation, positioning, and input controls. As of today, August

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WebVR Oculus Pose Prediction and HW Latency Testing

Oculus Pose prediction and hardware latency testing support has landed in the 2016-02-24 Firefox Nightly [https://nightly.mozilla.org/]. The effect will only be seen by Windows users with Oculus 0.8 runtime

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Oculus 0.8 Runtime Support Landing in Firefox Nightly

Oculus 0.8 runtime [https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/pc/0.8.0.0-beta/Oculus_Runtime_for_Windows/] support has been committed and will be in Firefox Nightly within 48 hours. Please note

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WebVR Enabled by Default in Firefox Nightly

As of 2016-01-05 Firefox Nightly [https://nightly.mozilla.org/], WebVR is enabled by default. If you see any increased choppiness after updating, it may be solved by unchecking the “Enable multi-process Nightly” option

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