“Firefox Reality was an interesting and important development that began in Mozilla Research while XR devices were still quite young,” Igalia says on the Wolvic website.
Igalia will use the Firefox Reality technologies in a browser called Wolvic that, according to its website, is expected to be released to the Huawei AppGallery and the Oculus app store “very soon” with the promise that “more options will follow” at a later date. Mozilla says that “the Firefox Reality browser technology will continue under Igalia where they will uphold the same principles we started when we created Firefox Reality - an open source browser that respects your privacy.” The underlying technologies will live on, however. Yet the company plans to remove Firefox Reality from all software marketplaces-including the Microsoft Store, Viveport, and Oculus-”in the coming weeks.” (Although the Firefox Reality website still claims that it’s “coming soon” to Pico Interactive’s platform.) It was the first cross-platform browser built by a trusted company, Mozilla, and quickly adopted by companies for use in their hardware devices.” “Since its launch,” Mozilla says in its announcement, “Firefox Reality offered users a unique browser in the mixed reality space. It’s also available for Microsoft HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality devices. However, the browser, which will be available next week, will still be in beta as Mozilla tries to transfer some of the features it previously provided to it.Mozilla is pulling the plug on its Firefox Reality browser.įirefox Reality is an open source web browser designed for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) devices that debuted in 2018 for Oculus, Google Daydream, and HTC Vive devices. It will initially run on Wolvic, Oculus, HTC Vive Focus, Pico Interactive, Daydream, Huawei AR Glasses and open source Lynx devices. This innovation means that the browser selection is currently limited. Redesigning a browser for a comprehensive operating system is a new experience. It would be pretty scary to enter a new reality without access to what already exists on the web.Īdditionally, WebXR opens up new ways to navigate, share and experience information driven from within the browser. At Igalia, we also believe that the Web is important to the XR space in many ways. Providing a comprehensive operating system, XR needs web browsers to be a part of it. In the statement made by Igalia on the subject, the following is said: Also, Firefox Reality will not be removed from app stores until Wolvic arrives. Instead, they can be redirected to the new browser. So people who already use Firefox Reality won’t have to give up entirely.
In addition, Wolvic is said to be available for download starting next week.
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