Mozilla Hubs shutting down, to be handed over to community management

WebXRAfter six years of effort, it has lost its main sponsor, Mozilla. The Mozilla Hubs service, dubbed a "private virtual 3D world in your browser," is shutting down along with the team that maintained it, even though the underlying technology will continue to exist as an open source project on Github through community support. Existence. The WebXR experience with hand tracking is something you can get from Apple'sVisionProandMetaQuestThe first truly cross-platform worlds accessible in both. While WebXR technology is still in its infancy, Mozilla Hubs represents a bright spot, enabling you to meet on different types of devices with little setup through web-based rooms.Mozilla will be shutting down its demo servers, subscriptions, and community resources at hubs.mozilla.com on May 31, 2024. Three members of the Hubs team will oversee the shutdown migration to a community-maintained program. In a Mozilla blog post explaining the closure plans, it was noted that the demo server saw "115,732 customized personas, 215,923 scenarios, and parties attended by nearly 10 million attendees." The organization notes that "Mozilla will no longer continue to actively develop or maintain the Hubs codebase and other community resources after the closure is complete." Mozilla is encouraging people with other questions to post them on the community Discord, where heavy support for the effort has already sprung up. Last year, Altspace, which is owned by Microsoft, released its shutdown program and provided a tool to download content before the servers were shut down, and Mozilla offers a similar tool for downloading data, though it is still in development.Mozilla notes, "Our goal is to enable users hosting assets on servers run by Mozilla users who host assets on servers run by Mozilla to be able to download their data in a format compatible with Community Edition instances or other WebXR platforms." All data on Hubs is associated with a user's email address. We plan to release a tool that will allow you toDownload all uploaded media associated with your email.This includes 3D models, audio files, image files, and video files uploaded through Spoke, as well as gLTFs of published Spoke scenes and characters. the tool will also enable you to retrieve all Hubs URLs, including scene URLs, room URLs, character URLs, and Spoke project URLs," Mozilla added. Added that character images, scenes and "other assets" released by its Hubs team should also be open-sourced. "Many former Hubs team members have rejoined the Discord server, reminding the community that Hubs was built for life outside of Mozilla. The project's commitment to open source and focus on a self-hosted version of Hubs means that no entity can determine the future of Hubs; only this community can." Kubernetes experience is required to install the "Community Edition" of Hubs.

source:uploadvr