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== September 18th, 2017 == | |||
* '''Big Welcome''' - This past Monday we had six new folks join our Mixed Reality team, coming to us after working together at Altspace VR. In pursuing ET’s mission of growing new areas for Mozilla we’d identified a key opportunity for virtual and augmented reality in building new services and products around identity, presence, avatar, and multi-user services. We aim to build open services that work across both the tens of millions of VR devices and hundreds of millions of handheld AR devices to be enabled in the coming weeks through Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore. Definitely watch this space... | |||
* '''Update on our Voice Fill experiment via Test Pilot''' -- We’ve fielded 29,955 spoken queries and are working on an update that would add voice integration to even more frequently visited Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Duck-Duck-Go websites. We’re also starting to receive contributions to the underlying code from community members, which is great! | |||
* '''We’re kicking off our Developer Roadshow in Asia this week and next,''' with stops in Singapore, Ho Chi MInh City, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Hong Kong. Check out the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/devroadshow/ website] for links and more details, especially if we’ll be somewhere near you | |||
== September 11th, 2017 == | == September 11th, 2017 == | ||
* '''Project Things mentioned in a publication''' - The MagPi publication (official Raspberry Pi magazine) has an article about our Things project ([https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/61/ issue 61]) in the September issue which talks about Mozilla’s efforts in the area of IoT and Web of Things in particular. | * '''Project Things mentioned in a publication''' - The MagPi publication (official Raspberry Pi magazine) has an article about our Things project ([https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/61/ issue 61]) in the September issue which talks about Mozilla’s efforts in the area of IoT and Web of Things in particular. | ||