- Mozilla Hacks, Firefox Reality.
So if you hadn't heard of it yet,
Firefox Reality is our VR, it's our VR
web browser that we've been working on
and it's gonna be really awesome when it's done,
I'm excited about this.
So essentially it's a version of Firefox
for virtual reality meaning you can both view
2D web pages in VR and actually view 3D content
like you know web VR pages and the new WebEx rspec.
So of course you need a compatible device,
I've been talking a lot about the Oculus Go lately
because the Go is really awesome.
It's tiny, it's $200 it just works,
it's built on an Android Core which
means that it was actually not too difficult
for us to produce that browser.
Now I'm gonna say this is still like
early alpha days, do not use this
for your regular web browsing needs, but if
you want to try it out please definitely do.
So you're gonna want to go to
GitHub.com/MozillaReality/FirefoxReality,
this is the GitHub repo, yes we are really open source
and everything is in the open on GitHub.
So click on build results at the bottom of the page,
then choose you know the one here obviously
and then go to run artifacts.
And this is produced, we want Oculus VR sign it.
Okay, let's save that guy.
Now if you're messing with the Go
at this point you probably have already
installed the Android debug tools,
so let me just pop up them in here.
See, I believe it's adb, what is that?
I'm trying to remember what the command is, adb devices.
Listening devices attached, all right.
Let's turn this guy on.
Let's see here.
I gotta have the Oculus actually be on
for them to work, right?
Let me boot up.
One of the other cool things I didn't realize at first
is these little handles twist up just great
because then I can get this out of the way for when I
just pop it on my head back and forth.
So it's super cool.
Now let's try that again.
There we go, okay.
Install, what was that?
FirefoxReality signed.apk.
Actually you guys will probably want, there we go.
And hopefully this will connect and install.
I'm tempted to reinstall without first uninstalling.
Uninstall org.mozilla.vrbrowser.
I'm guessing there is probably a single command I can do now
if I was more of an Android developer I would know,
but this should work.
All right, next we need Vysor, so this was the app
I installed before.
There we are, let's click view.
And I need to purchase this app so we can
be totally legit.
Make it super big please, hopefully.
Does it not really let me do full screen?
Hopefully you guys can see this.
So that's, well that is weird, oh, there we go.
Go away, there we go.
So let's go to home, library, and my apps.
Let's see, is it in my apps?
It should be, no, it's gonna be in,
I think it's gonna be in unknown sources, right.
Go a couple of pages, blah, blah, blah,
chromium, chromium, chromium, chromium, chromium, chromium.
Firefox Reality.
Whoa, okay, so now we see it running.
We've got, below me is this kind of metal
space tin thing I'm sitting on, there's a cool
space environment out here, and here is
my browser and this is some of the
new UI chrome we've been working on.
So we've got a nice little launch page,
there's our three 3D crow, let's click this button.
And what just happened?
Let's try that again.
It may have crashed, like I said this is super early days.
Okay, crash reporting is on, privacy poly, report an issue.
Yeah, so we have telemetry turned on
and you can easily report an issue right there,
which should be awesome, because I'm sure
we're gonna have many of those.
And this is private mode with a little mask guy.
Let's go to like The New York Times and see what happens.
Let's see, so we see what's the latest crazy thing
our president did.
Now you notice it treats it like it's a mobile website
because probably because of the screen resolution.
Let's see if we can do this.
There we go.
And we can resize it, we can make it smaller,
we can make it longer, sweet.
And hey, you know, it's VR so we've got
a lot of space to work with, that's cool, oops.
There we go, let's go to YouTube normal and see what happens
so now it's sort of like we're looking at a giant phone,
we could watch some actual trailers
like what do we have here, this looks like bees,
let's see if we can see some bees.
And we have some bees.
Let's this a little bigger, nice, resize totally works.
All right.
Now it just restores it back, so cool.
Look at these two, 3x, 2x, 1x, 0.5x, yeah.
Cool, so that is Firefox Reality, what we've got so far.
If you go to our home page you can see
video works obviously.
You know what, let's try out, there's our keyboard.
VR., whoops, that was a comma, not a period, dot.
Now eventually we'll have a thing where you can like
sink a tab from your desktops.
E-A-R-T-H, so you don't have to type on this keyboard, but.
Right there is my page with some of my demos,
let's click on my Wacom demo and see if it works.
Now we just started adding a immersive mode,
so it may or may not work.
All right, it's loading all of my stuff.
Let's click here, and we are now full VR,
albeit a little slowly, there, it's getting a little better.
Immersive physics is causing us some headaches.
And hey, look, the controller even works.
Oh ,you know what actually the screen recording is probably
slowing it down now that I think about it.
But hey, it works, I'm even getting the audio from my game.
Sweet.
All right, immersive mode is definitely a key component
of having a browser in virtual reality.
So there you go, that's Firefox VR,
or excuse me, Firefox Reality for VR.
So close out Vysor.
So that's all you gotta do.
If you want to test it out yourself we've got it on,
Oculus is the main release and I think,
I'm trying to remember what wave is it,
I think that's the Firefox, the Focus,
HTC Focus which is their stand-alone,
and then there's a few other ones just testing devices.
So that is all you need to do to check out Firefox Reality
and there you go.
Like I said it's super buggy and early,
so please try it out and file issues.
We are actively working on this,
we got a whole team of guys who are doing
great, awesome work.