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* '''Surveying Developers''' -- Three weeks ago our Developer Relations team launched the first edition of the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/07/mdn-web-developer-designer-survey/ MDN Developer and Designer Survey], hoping web developers and designers would be willing to spend a few minutes telling us about their needs and frustrations with the web. We have over 15,000 responses so far and, because the results will be shared with Google, Microsoft, Samsung and others, they’re actively helping us encourage folks to take part. If you create sites or services using HTML, CSS and/or JavaScript, please consider [https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/Developer-Needs-Assessment-2019 filling out the survey] and helping us move the web forward.
* '''Mile High Video''' -- [[File:Av1mhv19.jpg|100px|thumb|right|]] Last week Mozilla [https://twitter.com/videolan/status/1156612202423623681 caught the attention] of the broadcast industry with a live encoding and streaming demo of AV1 into all four major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Safari) at the Mile High Video workshop sponsored by Comcast and NBCUniversal. For Firefox (x86 and ARM), Chrome and Edge (dev build w/ Chromium) this was easy since AV1 is natively supported with the [https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d dav1d] decoder. In Safari, which has no AV1 support, real-time play back was achieved using a WASM build of dav1d! Try it yourself [http://media-streaming.wmflabs.org/clean/av1-hls/ here]! This marks a major milestone for video on the web and is particularly important to broadcasters who primarily ship H.264 (in significant and growing amounts), as our own Nathan Egge described in his [https://xiph.org/~negge/MHV2019.pdf presentation] to the industry heavyweights in attendance.
* '''Reality Update''' -- We launched Firefox Reality on the Oculus Quest, to good [https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/25/firefox-reality-vr-browser-is-now-available-for-oculus-quest/ press response]. We have seen a nearly 33% increase in DAU due to this launch and additional press and other updates around the launch and the similarly-timed 1.3 release. For Hubs, we [https://blog.mozvr.com/hubs-summer-update-2019/ recently published] our July update to the Mixed Reality blog, which highlights a variety of new features such as enhanced permissions, moderator tools, and a spectator camera. Over the last several months we’ve seen more people using Hubs to host meetups with their communities using Discord and Twitter -- these new features are primarily focused on increasing safety and quality of experience for these kinds of events with semi-trusted audiences.
== July 29th, 2019 ==
