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Your Privacy and Mozilla Hubs

At Mozilla, we believe that privacy is fundamental to a healthy internet. We especially believe that this is the case in social VR platforms, which process and transmit large amounts of personal information. What happens in Hubs should stay in Hubs.

Updates

Update on Mozilla Mixed Reality

The wider XR community has long supported the Mozilla Mixed Reality team, and we look forward to that continuing as the team restructures itself in the face of recent changes at Mozilla.

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Sharing Virtual Spaces is More than a Headset

One of the questions that the Hubs team is often asked is about the benefits of shared virtual environments compared to traditional video conferencing. While Hubs was built to support virtual reality devices,

Firefox Reality

Mozilla Announces Deal to Bring Firefox Reality to Pico Devices

For more than a year, we at Mozilla have been working to build a browser that was made to showcase the best of what you love about browsing, but tailor made for Virtual

Tools

A Year with Spoke: Announcing the Architecture Kit

Spoke, our 3D editor for creating environments for Hubs, is celebrating its first birthday with a major update. Last October, we released the first version of Spoke, a compositing tool for mixing 2D

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Virtual identities in Hubs

Identity is a complicated concept—who are we really? Virtual spaces make this even harder. Having control over our representation and identity online is a critical component of safety and privacy, and platforms should prioritize user agency.

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Creating privacy-centric virtual spaces

As immersive devices become more affordable, social spaces in virtual reality (VR) will become more integrated into our daily lives. If social VR is the next evolution of this, what approaches will result in spaces that respect user identities, autonomy, and safety?

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Making ethical decisions for the immersive web

What I really want is an immersive future that respects individual creators and users. Platforms and applications that thoughtfully approach issues of autonomy, privacy, bias, and accessibility in a complex environment.

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Announcing the Hubs Discord Bot

We're excited to announce an official Hubs integration with Discord, a platform that provides text and voice chat for communities. If you are interested in participating in the beta, learn more at: hubs.mozilla.com/discord

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New in Hubs: Images, Videos, and 3D Models

Bring your videos, images, documents, and 3D models into Hubs by simply pasting a link.

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Introducing A-Terrain - a cartography component for A-Frame

Add maps to your A-Frame projects!