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Re:WebVR lands in Firefox Nightly by bennettfeely on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @09:38PM (#8921162)
Part of me wants web browsers to be working on fixing problems that are actually practical and needed rather than these kind of Virtual reality toys.
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Re:WebVR lands in Firefox Nightly by onion2k on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @09:59PM (#8921223)
It's possible that working on new technologies like WebVR will feed improvements to other parts of the browser (faster parsing, more robust rendering, WebGL, etc). Even if it doesn't have a direct impact, just having more smart people involved in brower tech will help.
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Re:WebVR lands in Firefox Nightly by iopq on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @06:53AM (#8922634)
Literally nobody will notice when Firefox will start shipping components written in Rust. It will be some footnote about security somewhere that will be ignored. But everyone will be like OMG VIRTUAL REALITY THE FUTURE IS HERE.
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