Mozilla is shutting down its made-for-VR web browser, Firefox Reality, and handing off the project to third-party team Igalia. Mozilla launched Firefox Reality back in 2018 on a host of early standalones, including Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus. In the following...

As the most valuable tech company in the world, decisions that Apple makes tend to reverberate throughout the industry. Recent evidence strongly points to Apple planning to support WebXR on Safari and possibly its forthcoming XR headset, which would...

Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, today announced that it's laying off 250 employees, apparently shuttering the team responsible for most of its web-focused XR development. Hubs, the company's web-based social VR app, will continue forward. Mozilla has been a leading...

Firefox Reality, Mozilla's made-for-VR web browser, has been available on standalone devices for some time now, featuring support for Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HTC Vive Focus, and Pico standalones. Now Mozilla has brought its WebXR-capable browser to PC VR...

A newly released update for the Oculus Browser on Quest includes full-finger hand-tracking support for WebXR projects. The feature was quietly released in the recent 10.2 build of Oculus Browser, which now comes with a hand-tracking API and timewarp layer support,...

Mozilla has released a major revamp of its WebXR Viewer app on iOS, bringing support for the latest version of the WebXR standard, which allows AR and VR experiences to run from the web on the iPhone and iPad. Mozilla...

Mozilla Hubs is the company's impressive WebXR social app which allows users from almost any device (VR or not) to jump into a virtual room with the click of a link. But the company's ambitions go much further; soon...

WebXR is an open standard which allows VR apps to run directly from web browsers. While the tools for building WebXR apps are designed to be familiar to web developers, many VR developers use game engine tools like Unity...

Coronavirus, otherwise known as the 2019 novel coronavirus, is primarily affecting China. While it's mostly been relegated to that country due to stringent quarantines and travel restrictions mandated by the Chinese government, you've probably heard that it's also landed...

Moon Rider is a free VR rhythm game built on the WebVR standard which means it runs directly from a web browser rather than being downloaded and installed on a specific VR storefront. Its creators say the game has...

8th Wall, a Palo Alto-based company creating augmented reality development tools, today announced the release of its cloud-based authoring and hosting platform which aims to make it easier for AR developers by providing what it calls a "unified in-browser solution"...

Supermedium, the team behind the native virtual reality browser that lets you interact with web-based VR content, says its namesake project is no longer in active development, and that it's effectively been put "on ice" in search of something...

Mozilla has finally brought its made-for-VR web browser, Firefox Reality, to Oculus Quest. In September of last year, the company initially released Firefox Reality on Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus (and other Vive Wave headsets) for free. Now, according to a...

Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain Mozilla announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Firefox Reality web browser to the recently revealed Microsoft HoloLens 2. While Mozilla hasn't mentioned a release date yet, the company says they're...