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== August 10th, 2020 ==
* '''Firefox Reality for PC''' -- Last week we released the public preview for Firefox Reality PC, the newest addition to the [https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/firefox-reality Firefox Reality] family off products. Built upon the latest version of Firefox itself, Firefox Reality PC Preview brings all the content of the conventional web into PC-based virtual reality for both tethered and wireless streaming headsets. In addition to letting you browse within an immersive VR environment, Firefox Reality lets you watch 360 videos or explore 3D web content created with WebVR or WebXR. More details and some sample video is in Thomas Moore’s [https://blog.mozvr.com/introducing-firefox-reality-pc-preview/ post] on our Mixed Reality Blog.
* '''Doing More With Your Voice''' -- Last week saw the [https://voice.mozilla.org/firefox-voice/ public release of Firefox Voice 0.24] which includes, along with a variety of other features, our first realization of “Hello Firefox” wakeword support. Now you can activate and interact with Firefox entirely with your voice. This is also exciting as it’s the first major use of the [https://github.com/castorini/howl Howl] wakeword spotter system, which was developed by a team at the University of Waterloo, and is a significant contribution to an entirely open-source voice ecosystem.
* '''More Voice, Part 2''' -- We also released [https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/tag/v0.8.0 DeepSpeech 0.8.0] last week, with some enhancements to threading and performance that make it substantially more efficient on small platform devices for both mobile and embedded applications, and, for the first time, have enabled support for iOS alongside Android.
* '''Reminder''' -- RustConf 2020 is next Thursday, August 20th. All the pertinent details -- speakers, schedule, how to take part, and even some digital swag -- are available on the [https://rustconf.com/ conference web site], and our own Nell Shamrell-Harrington will be our host for the event.
== August 3rd, 2020 ==
* '''AV1 Adoption Accelerates''' -- AV1 will be [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644566 on by default] in Fenix, our new Firefox browser for Android, scheduled for release on August 25th. This includes the latest release of the dav1d AV1 decoder, which has been specially optimized for Arm devices. And VLC, the very popular free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework is [https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2020-July/135559.html adding support] for Mozilla’s own Rust-based AV1 encoder module rav1e. VLC already provides AV1 decoding and playback using dav1d, and with this addition will deliver full AV1 encoding and decoding support to hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
