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| 28 | <h1><span>Table of Contents</span></h1> |
| 29 | <h2>Mozilla Emerging Technologies</h2> |
| 30 | |
| 31 | <div class="captionedbox"> |
| 32 | <p class="captionedbox-caption">The following slides are available in this presentation:</p> |
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| 38 | <article id="index" data-title="Start Page" data-seconds="600"> |
| 39 | <h1><span>Mozilla Emerging Technologies</span></h1> |
| 40 | <h2>New Technologies for the Open Web</h2> |
| 41 | |
| 42 | <div class="simplebox decofont"> |
| 43 | <mark><a href="http://home.kairo.at/">Robert Kaiser</a></mark>, |
| 44 | "KaiRo" <kairo@kairo.at> |
| 45 | <br><small>Mozilla Tech Speaker</small> |
| 46 | </div> |
| 47 | |
| 48 | <div class="captionedbox"> |
| 49 | <p class="captionedbox-caption decofont">Slides: |
| 50 | <a href="https://slides.kairo.at/linuxwochen2018/">https://slides.kairo.at/linuxwochen2018/</a></p> |
| 51 | <div class="captionedbox-content small"> |
| 52 | <ul class="small"> |
| 53 | <li>Created for a |
| 54 | <a href="https://cfp.linuxwochen.at/de/LWW18/public/events/741">presentation</a> |
| 55 | at <a href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen 2018</a> in Wien/Vienna.</li> |
| 56 | <li>Written in HTML 5 with CSS 3 and JavaScript.</li> |
| 57 | <li>Navigation via links on all slides, via access keys |
| 58 | (e.g. "n"/Alt+Shift+N for "next") or back/forward arrow keys</li> |
| 59 | <li><a href="#toc">Contents</a></li> |
| 60 | <li><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img |
| 61 | alt="Lizenziert unter CC-BY-SA," class="ccinline" src="cc-by-sa.svg"></a> |
| 62 | 04/2018 Robert Kaiser - |
| 63 | "Mozilla", "Firefox" and their logos are |
| 64 | <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/list.html">trademarks |
| 65 | of Mozilla Foundation</a>.</li> |
| 66 | </ul> |
| 67 | </div> |
| 68 | </div> |
| 69 | </article> |
| 70 | |
| 71 | <article id="mozet" data-title="Emerging Technologies Group"> |
| 72 | <h1><span>Emerging Technologies Group</span></h1> |
| 73 | |
| 74 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 75 | <ul> |
| 76 | <li>R&D organization @ Mozilla, a.k.a. <mark>Mozilla Research</mark></li> |
| 77 | <li><a href="https://research.mozilla.org/">research.mozilla.org</a></li> |
| 78 | <li><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/technology/">mozilla.org/technology</a></li> |
| 79 | <li>Multiple teams for different technologies</li> |
| 80 | </ul> |
| 81 | </div> |
| 82 | </article> |
| 83 | |
| 84 | <article id="webxr" data-title="Mixed Reality"> |
| 85 | <h1><span>Mixed Reality (XR)</span></h1> |
| 86 | |
| 87 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 88 | <img src="vrheadset-boy.png" class="slidepic" |
| 89 | alt="Boy with VR headset"> |
| 90 | <ul> |
| 91 | <li>WebXR - <mark>Virtual & Augmented Reality</mark> (WebVR & AR)</li> |
| 92 | <li><a href="https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/">research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality</a></li> |
| 93 | <li><a href="https://webvr.info/">webvr.info</a>, <a href="https://webxr.io/">webxr.io</a> - |
| 94 | <a href="https://github.com/immersive-web/webxr">WebXR Device API</a>, |
| 95 | <mark>Open Standard</mark> (proposal)</li> |
| 96 | <li>In concert with WebGL, WebAudio and Gamepad APIs</li> |
| 97 | <li>Windows: Firefox release, Mac: Nightly, Linux: in development</li> |
| 98 | </ul> |
| 99 | <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p> |
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| 101 | </article> |
| 102 | |
| 103 | <article id="aframe" data-title="A-Frame"> |
| 104 | <h1><span>A-Frame - XR Made Simple</span></h1> |
| 105 | |
| 106 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 107 | <img src="aframe-sticker.png" class="slidepic" |
| 108 | alt="A-Frame - aframe-io"> |
| 109 | Example: |
| 110 | <pre> |
| 111 | <<mark>a-scene</mark>> |
| 112 | <a-sphere <small>position="0 1.25 -1" radius="1.25" color="#EF2D5E"</small>></a-sphere> |
| 113 | <<mark>a-cube</mark> <small>position="-1 0.5 1" rotation="0 0 0" …</small>> |
| 114 | <<mark>a-animation</mark> <small>attribute="rotation" … to="0 360 0"</small>></a-animation> |
| 115 | </a-cube> |
| 116 | <a-cylinder <small>position="1 0.75 1" …</small>></a-cylinder> |
| 117 | <a-plane <small>…</small>></a-plane> |
| 118 | <a-sky <small>color="#ECECEC"</small>></a-sky> |
| 119 | </a-scene> |
| 120 | </pre> |
| 121 | <p><a href="https://codepen.io/mozvr/pen/jqERjQ">edit/view</a> |
| 122 | - More at <a href="https://aframe.io/">aframe.io</a> |
| 123 | <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p> |
| 124 | </div> |
| 125 | </article> |
| 126 | |
| 127 | <article id="codecs" data-title="Open Media Codecs"> |
| 128 | <h1><span>Open Media Codecs</span></h1> |
| 129 | |
| 130 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 131 | <img src="av1-comingsoon.png" class="slidepic" alt="AV1 - Coming Soon"> |
| 132 | <ul> |
| 133 | <li><a href="https://www.opus-codec.org/">Opus</a>: <mark>royalty-free, open, universal</mark> audio codec</li> |
| 134 | <li>Next target: do the same with video</li> |
| 135 | <li>Mozilla/Xiph: Daala + Google: VP9 + Cisco: Thor</li> |
| 136 | <li><a href="http://aomedia.org/">Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)</a> for collaboration</li> |
| 137 | <li><a href="https://aomedia.org/the-alliance-for-open-media-kickstarts-video-innovation-era-with-av1-release/">Released</a>: |
| 138 | AV1 bitstream frozen since March/April 2018</li> |
| 139 | <li>Next: Opimized de-/encoders, hardware support, ...</li> |
| 140 | </ul> |
| 141 | <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p> |
| 142 | </div> |
| 143 | </article> |
| 144 | |
| 145 | <article id="speech" data-title="Speech & Learning"> |
| 146 | <h1><span>Speech & Machine Learning</span></h1> |
| 147 | |
| 148 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 149 | <img src="speechlearning.png" class="slidepic" alt="Speech Recording + Learning"> |
| 150 | <ul> |
| 151 | <li><a href="https://voice.mozilla.org/">Common Voice</a>: Open repository for <mark>voice recordings</mark></li> |
| 152 | <li>Machine learning to train speech-to-text (STT) systems</li> |
| 153 | <li>DeepSpeech / Pipsqueak: Mozilla STT, open source</li> |
| 154 | <li><mark>Offline speech recognition</mark> engine, for security + privacy, can run on RPi3</li> |
| 155 | <li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-initial-release-of-mozillas-open-source-speech-recognition-model-and-voice-dataset/">Only |
| 156 | 6.5% error rate on first released model</a></li> |
| 157 | <li><a href="https://research.mozilla.org/machine-learning/">research.mozilla.org/machine-learning</a></li> |
| 158 | </ul> |
| 159 | <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p> |
| 160 | </div> |
| 161 | </article> |
| 162 | |
| 163 | <article id="rust" data-title="Rust"> |
| 164 | <h1><span>Rust Language</span></h1> |
| 165 | |
| 166 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 167 | <img src="rust-logo.svg" class="slidepic" alt="Rust logo"> |
| 168 | <ul> |
| 169 | <li>Systems programming language</li> |
| 170 | <li>Focus on <mark>speed</mark>, <mark>memory safety</mark> and <mark>parallelism</mark></li> |
| 171 | <li>Low-level language but prevents segmentation faults and guarantees thread safety</li> |
| 172 | <li>Mozilla as founder and sponsor, active volunteer community</li> |
| 173 | <li>Used at Mozilla e.g. in Servo and Firefox Quantum</li> |
| 174 | <li><a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">rust-lang.org</a></li> |
| 175 | </ul> |
| 176 | <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p> |
| 177 | </div> |
| 178 | </article> |
| 179 | |
| 180 | <article id="servo" data-title="Servo"> |
| 181 | <h1><span>Servo Web Engine</span></h1> |
| 182 | |
| 183 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 184 | <img src="servo.png" class="slidepic" alt="Servo logo"> |
| 185 | <ul> |
| 186 | <li>Experimental web engine, <mark>written in Rust</mark></li> |
| 187 | <li>Modular architecture, embeddable</li> |
| 188 | <li><mark>Memory safe</mark>: more stability & security</li> |
| 189 | <li><mark>Fast</mark>: parallelism + newer algorithms</li> |
| 190 | <li>Mature modules can be integrated into Gecko (Firefox Quantum)</li> |
| 191 | <li>Possible base for a WebVR/XR runtime, etc.</li> |
| 192 | <li><a href="https://servo.org/">servo.org</a>, |
| 193 | <a href="https://research.mozilla.org/servo-engines/">research.mozilla.org/servo-engines</a></li> |
| 194 | </ul> |
| 195 | <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p> |
| 196 | </div> |
| 197 | </article> |
| 198 | |
| 199 | <article id="wasm" data-title="WebAssembly"> |
| 200 | <h1><span>WebAssembly (wasm)</span></h1> |
| 201 | |
| 202 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 203 | <img src="web-assembly-logo.svg" class="slidepic" alt="WebAssembly logo"> |
| 204 | <ul> |
| 205 | <li>New, low-level, assembly-like language to run in browsers</li> |
| 206 | <li>Backward-compatible with <a href="http://asmjs.org/">asm.js</a></li> |
| 207 | <li>Good target to <mark>compile C/C++ or Rust</mark> (via |
| 208 | <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Emscripten">Emscripten</a>) |
| 209 | <mark>for the browser</mark></li> |
| 210 | <li>Enables <mark>fast compute-intensive applications</mark> (games et al.) on the web</li> |
| 211 | <li>Already supported in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari</li> |
| 212 | <li><a href="http://webassembly.org/">webassembly.org</a></li> |
| 213 | </div> |
| 214 | </article> |
| 215 | |
| 216 | <article id="iot" data-title="Project Things"> |
| 217 | <h1><span>IoT - Project Things</span></h1> |
| 218 | |
| 219 | <div class="simplebox"> |
| 220 | <img src="mozilla_iot_illustration.png" class="slidepic" alt="Project Things illustration"> |
| 221 | <ul> |
| 222 | <li>Experimental framework for connecting "things" to the web</li> |
| 223 | <li>Target: decentralized Internet of Things that is safe, open and interoperable</li> |
| 224 | <li><mark>Web Thing API: Proposed W3C standard</mark></li> |
| 225 | <li>Things Gateway connects existing things/protocols to the web</li> |
| 226 | <li>Cloud services are optional and configurable</li> |
| 227 | <li><mark>Giving control back to the user</mark></li> |
| 228 | <li><a href="https://iot.mozilla.org/">iot.mozilla.org</a></li> |
| 229 | </ul> |
| 230 | <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p> |
| 231 | </div> |
| 232 | </article> |
| 233 | |
| 234 | <article id="end" data-title="The End"> |
| 235 | |
| 236 | <div class="simplebox endslidecontainer"> |
| 237 | <h1 class="cent endslidetext">Questions?</h1> |
| 238 | <h2 class="cent endslidetext"><span><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/technology/">mozilla.org/technology</a></span></h2> |
| 239 | <h3 class="cent endslidetext"><span>kairo@kairo.at</span></h3> |
| 240 | <img src="mister_tricorder.jpg" class="sshot endslidepic" alt="Data & Mister Tricorder"> |
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