Mozilla launched website for virtual reality glasses owners

Somehow quite an important event passed by our attention: Firefox browser turned 10 years old. During this period, the browser has become a truly indispensable tool for many users. In honor of this event, as well as to demonstrate what new technologies can give us, Mozilla launched a virtual reality site .



This resource is intended for viewing with glasses of virtual reality, and is “sharpened” as much as possible for this type of viewing. The developers call it “VR site about other VR sites”.

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Creating a resource is the company's desire to try out new technologies that are gradually becoming more and more popular, as well as to support the growing community of application developers for VR glasses.



Of course, the interface of the resource is qualitatively new, there are neither usual clicks, nor scrolling. All actions are performed with gestures, movements of the head and hands. All solutions used to create the resource are laid out on GitHub , including the source code, tools for the work, reference information.







The site interface is at a very early stage of development, but you can work with the resource without any special problems. The site has something to see. In particular, it is Sechelt, a WebGL flight over the coast of British Columbia. In addition, there is a documentary film The Polar Sea, with the ability to rotate the camera at 360 degrees. There is also the opportunity to dive into the depths of the sea, with the application Diving.



To view all this, you need the Oculus Rift video glasses, as well as the Firefox VR distribution kit for Mac or PC. Also, the new resource will work with VR-builds Chromium.



All demos are available here: gitbub.com/MozVR .