Mozilla Firefox Reality has been the company’s VR/AR browser since it launched back in 2018. Now, the company just announced that it’s going to be retiring the browser and giving it to another company.
Firefox Reality is going to a different company
For the past four years, Firefox Reality has been the company’s virtual reality solution to browsing. Using a VR headset, you could surf the web with a floating interface. You could do anything you could with a regular browser along with 3D videos and other cool features.
However, it seems that Mozilla is done with this venture. It announced today that it’s relinquishing the source code to the program to another company and washing its hands of the whole matter. A company by the name of Igalia will get the source code for the browser and relaunch it under the name Wolvic.
As for Firefox Reality, it will be taken down from the app stores over the next couple of weeks. However, Wolvic will be available to download next week. We’re not sure just how Igalia will change up the software experience. We do expect to see differences in some capacity.
What could you do with Firefox Reality?
For those who never used Firefox Reality, it’s a really fun browser to use if you had a VR headset. It launched back in 2018, and it made it to several VR headsets.
The browser appeared in front of you in a large easy-to-read window. You could use your controllers to scroll up and down in the windows which made navigation easy. If you wanted to search for something, you could use a floating keyboard or voice commands. The VR fun didn’t stop there, as you were able to watch 3D videos from the browser, which was a neat touch.
While there were new and exciting features, Firefox Reality had some of the basics. You were still able to create bookmarks and browse in the privacy mode like with any other browser.
You might want to get things wrapped up
Since Firefox Reality is going to be going away in the next couple of weeks, it will do you good to get everything wrapped up. You’ll want to make sure that you get data like bookmarks over to another browser. You don’t want to risk losing anything.
Since the program is going under a new company, it’s interesting to see what changes the company made. Hopefully, Igalia will be able to retain the user experience.
2022-02-04 15:06:37