mozilla-hubs-shutdown 
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, shuttered most of its web-focused XR development back in 2020. At the time, the company’s web-based social VR app Hubs was spared from the chopping block. Now, after a new organization-wide restructuring, all development on Hubs is set to be wound down in May.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Mozilla has announced it will shutter Mozilla Hubs, which includes Hubs Demo Server, Managed Subscription, and community resources. The web browser developer, Mozilla, said this was the result of the “organisation-wide restructuring” that it revealed last week.
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Upload VR
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
WebXR social networking framework Hubs has lost its biggest sponsor, Mozilla, after six years of effort. WebXR as a technology is still in its infancy, but Mozilla Hubs represented a bright spot for the concept with Web-based rooms you could meet in across different types of devices with very little set up involved.
Ryan Schultz
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
But, to me, the saddest of the shutdowns arrived this month, when Mozilla announced in a blogpost on February 15th, 2024 : On February 13, 2024, Mozilla announced an organization-wide restructuring impacting a number of products housed within the Mozilla Corporation.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
It used advanced architecture to enable computing requirements to be shared between glasses, the hub, and the cloud. Mozilla to Shut Down Hubs Mozilla announced the closure of Mozilla Hubs, including its Demo Server, Managed Subscription, and community resources.
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