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== October 14th, 2019 ==
* '''Introducing ECSY''' -- Last week our Mixed Reality team [https://blog.mozvr.com/introducing-ecsy/ released ECSY], our Entity Component System framework for the web. While frameworks like three.js, babylon, and A-Frame have thousands of contributors and hundreds of components, integrating, say, a sparkle-hands component with buttons that you can press has remained out of reach. A creator who wants both will often have to write the sparkle-hands-button-press component. Fortunately, this is a common design issue in the world of 2D and 3D gaming, and there's an off the shelf programming solution - entity component systems - that we have adapted to work well in the JavaScript ecosystem and on top of existing frameworks like three.js. We're starting with the core, but have been working with the ecosystem to reduce this key barrier to entry to new WebXR developers and help us both build more healthy sharing ecosystems and new custom elements on top of it that will increase what non-JS creators can do with just HTML and CSS in WebXR. Read our Mixed Reality Blog [https://blog.mozvr.com/introducing-ecsy/ post] to learn more.
* '''Automated language translation in Firefox''' -- The Emerging Technologies Speech/ML team is collaborating via an EU Horizon 2020 grant (code named [https://browser.mt/ “Project Bergamot”]) to develop neural machine translation capabilities that would allow Firefox to automatically translate content from one language to another. As part of that work we’ve documented our first integration milestone along with code and a [https://youtu.be/ptmLzVeU0dk?vq=hd2160 video demo] to the EU. In the demo you’ll see early results of automatic translation of a German-language mozilla.org page into English, in real-time in Firefox. This is a two year grant, so there’s more work ahead, and more languages to come.
== October 7th, 2019 ==
* '''View Source 2019''' -- In its 5th year, Mozilla’s annual web conference, [https://2019.viewsourceconf.org/# ViewSource 2019], featured talks by Selena Deckelmann (Our Privacy and the Web), Mike Taylor (Browser Compatibility), Kadir Topal (MDN Developer Needs Survey, originally a keynote at W3C TPAC), Mozilla Tech Speakers Ali Spittel & Chen Hui Jing, and panelists Yulia Startsev & Andreas Bovens. View Source also included interactive conversation areas where Mozillians & attendees discussed What’s New in Firefox, Browser Compatibility & Interoperability, the Web Speech API, Mixed Reality Privacy, and MDN Browser Compatibility, among many other topics. There were also audience lightning talks and live podcasts from [https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/creating-javascript?sc_cid=701f2000000tyBtAAI Command Line Heroes] & Voices of VR. Videos of the talks will be posted within a few weeks, but in the meantime you can check out what people had to say on [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ViewSourceConf?src=hashtag_click&f=live Twitter].
