Igalia company, known for its participation in the development of such free projects as GNOME, GTK, WebKitgtk, EpiPhany, Gstreamer and Freedesktop.org, posted New open web browser Wolvic , intended for use in virtual reality systems. The project will continue the development of the Firefox Reality previously developed by Mozilla, but for about a year not updated . Wolvic code is written in Java and C ++ languages, and extends under the MPLV2 license. Ready-made assemblies of the first pre-release of Wolvic formed for the Android platform and support work with 3D helmets Oculus, Huawei VR Glass, HTC VIVE FOCUS, PICO INTERACTIVE and LYNX. Work is underway to porting the browser for Qualcomm and Lenovo devices.
The browser uses the geckoview – version of the Mozilla Gecko engine, designed in the form of a separate library, which can be updated independently. The control is performed through a fundamentally different three-dimensional user interface that allows you to navigate through sites within a virtual world or as part of auxiliary reality systems. In addition to controlled through a 3D-helmet of an interface that allows you to view traditional two-dimensional pages, Web developers can use the WebXR, Webar and WebVR API to create specialized three-dimensional Web applications, interacting with which is performed in virtual space. Also supported viewing in a 3D-helmet of spatial video taken in 360 degrees mode.
Control is performed via VR controllers, and data entry into Web-shapes via a virtual or real keyboard. From the user’s supported by the browser, the user interaction mechanisms is allocated a voice input system that allows you to fill out forms and send search queries using the MOZILLA engine to recognize speech. As a start page, the browser provides an interface for access to favorite content and navigation on the collection adapted for 3D-helmets of games, Web applications, 3D models and spatial video.