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• Share your favorite images and videos in VR with Mozilla Hubs

  Mozilla Hubs is a VR chat system that lets you walk and talk in VR with your friends, no matter where in the world they are. Now you can share virtually any kind of media with everyone in your Hubs room by just pasting in a URL. Anything you share ...

  Posted August 23, 2018 by Josh Marinacci

• Dweb: Serving the Web from the Browser with Beaker

  Publishing and sharing is core to the Web’s ethos, yet to publish your own website or even just share a document, you need to know how to run a server, or be able to pay someone to do it for you. Peer-to-peer protocols like dat:// make it possible for regular ...

  Posted August 22, 2018 by Tara Vancil

• Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent

  The web is healthy when the financial cost of self-expression isn’t a barrier. This installment of the Dweb series describes WebTorrent – an implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that runs in a web browser. It’s written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for ...

  Posted August 15, 2018 by Feross Aboukhadijeh

• MDN Changelog for July 2018: CDN tests, Goodbye Zones, and BCD

  Editor’s note: A changelog is “a log or record of all notable changes made to a project. [It] usually includes records of changes such as bug fixes, new features, etc.” Publishing a changelog is kind of a tradition in open source, and a long-time practice on the web. We thought ...

  Posted August 10, 2018 by John Whitlock

• AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027

  This post imagines a dystopian future where only the rich can stream video to their homes, and the democratizing forces of the internet have crumbled under corruption and greed. The author reports back from a troubled future in the late 2020s that is wholly fictitious. The open video codec AV1 ...

  Posted August 09, 2018 by Judy DeMocker