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  28 <h1><span>Inhalt</span></h1>
  29 <h2>Mozilla Emerging Technologies</h2>
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  32 <p class="captionedbox-caption">The following slides are available in this presentation:</p>
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  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" &lt;kairo@kairo.at&gt;
  45 <br><small>Mozilla Tech Speaker</small>
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  49 <p class="captionedbox-caption decofont">Slides:
  50   <a href="https://slides.kairo.at/linuxwochen2018/">https://slides.kairo.at/linuxwochen2018/</a></p>
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  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>
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  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&amp;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>
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  83
  84 <article id="webxr" data-title="Mixed Reality">
  85 <h1><span>Mixed Reality (XR)</span></h1>
  86
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  88 <img src="vrheadset-boy.png" class="slidepic"
  89  alt="Boy with VR headset">
  90 <ul>
  91   <li>WebXR - <mark>Virtual &amp; Augmented Reality</mark> (WebVR &amp; 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> - WebVR API, <mark>Open Standard</mark></li>
  94   <li>In concert with WebGL, WebAudio and Gamepad APIs</li>
  95   <li>Windows: Firefox release, Mac: Nightly, Linux: in development</li>
  96 </ul>
  97 <p class="ensurepicinbox"></p>
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  99 </article>
 100
 101 <article id="aframe" data-title="A-Frame">
 102 <h1><span>A-Frame - XR Made Simple</span></h1>
 103
 104 <div class="simplebox">
 105 <img src="aframe-sticker.png" class="slidepic"
 106  alt="A-Frame - aframe-io">
 107 Example:
 108 <pre>
 109 &lt;<mark>a-scene</mark>&gt;
 110   &lt;a-sphere <small>position="0 1.25 -1" radius="1.25" color="#EF2D5E"</small>&gt;&lt;/a-sphere&gt;
 111   &lt;<mark>a-cube</mark> <small>position="-1 0.5 1" rotation="0 0 0" …</small>&gt;
 112     &lt;<mark>a-animation</mark> <small>attribute="rotation" … to="0 360 0"</small>&gt;&lt;/a-animation&gt;
 113   &lt;/a-cube&gt;
 114   &lt;a-cylinder <small>position="1 0.75 1" …</small>&gt;&lt;/a-cylinder&gt;
 115   &lt;a-plane <small>…</small>&gt;&lt;/a-plane&gt;
 116   &lt;a-sky <small>color="#ECECEC"</small>&gt;&lt;/a-sky&gt;
 117 &lt;/a-scene&gt;
 118 </pre>
 119 <p><a href="https://codepen.io/mozvr/pen/jqERjQ">edit/view</a>
 120 - More at <a href="https://aframe.io/">aframe.io</a>
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 123 </article>
 124
 125 <article id="codecs" data-title="Open Media Codecs">
 126 <h1><span>Open Media Codecs</span></h1>
 127
 128 <div class="simplebox">
 129 <img src="av1-comingsoon.png" class="slidepic" alt="AV1 - Coming Soon">
 130 <ul>
 131   <li><a href="https://www.opus-codec.org/">Opus</a>: <mark>royalty-free, open, universal</mark> audio codec</li>
 132   <li>Next target: do the same with video</li>
 133   <li>Mozilla/Xiph: Daala + Google: VP9 + Cisco: Thor</li>
 134   <li><a href="http://aomedia.org/">Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)</a> for collaboration</li>
 135   <li><a href="https://aomedia.org/the-alliance-for-open-media-kickstarts-video-innovation-era-with-av1-release/">Released</a>:
 136     AV1 bitstream frozen since March/April 2018</li>
 137   <li>Next: Opimized de-/encoders, hardware support, ...</li>
 138 </ul>
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 141 </article>
 142
 143 <article id="speech" data-title="Speech &amp; Learning">
 144 <h1><span>Speech &amp; Machine Learning</span></h1>
 145
 146 <div class="simplebox">
 147 <img src="speechlearning.png" class="slidepic" alt="Speech Recording + Learning">
 148 <ul>
 149   <li><a href="https://voice.mozilla.org/">Common Voice</a>: Open repository for <mark>voice recordings</mark></li>
 150   <li>Machine learning to train speech-to-text (STT) systems</li>
 151   <li>DeepSpeech / Pipsqueak: Mozilla STT, open source</li>
 152   <li><mark>Offline speech recognition</mark> engine, for security + privacy, can run on RPi3</li>
 153   <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
 154     6.5% error rate on first released model</a></li>
 155   <li><a href="https://research.mozilla.org/machine-learning/">research.mozilla.org/machine-learning</a></li>
 156 </ul>
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 158 </div>
 159 </article>
 160
 161 <article id="rust" data-title="Rust">
 162 <h1><span>Rust Language</span></h1>
 163
 164 <div class="simplebox">
 165 <img src="rust-logo.svg" class="slidepic" alt="Rust logo">
 166 <ul>
 167   <li>Systems programming language</li>
 168   <li>Focus on <mark>speed</mark>, <mark>memory safety</mark> and <mark>parallelism</mark></li>
 169   <li>Low-level language but prevents segmentation faults and guarantees thread safety</li>
 170   <li>Mozilla as founder and sponsor, active volunteer community</li>
 171   <li>Used at Mozilla e.g. in Servo and Firefox Quantum</li>
 172   <li><a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/">rust-lang.org</a></li>
 173 </ul>
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 176 </article>
 177
 178 <article id="servo" data-title="Servo">
 179 <h1><span>Servo Web Engine</span></h1>
 180
 181 <div class="simplebox">
 182 <img src="servo.png" class="slidepic" alt="Servo logo">
 183 <ul>
 184   <li>Experimental web engine, <mark>written in Rust</mark></li>
 185   <li>Modular architecture, embeddable</li>
 186   <li><mark>Memory safe</mark>: more stability &amp; security</li>
 187   <li><mark>Fast</mark>: parallelism + newer algorithms</li>
 188   <li>Mature modules can be integrated into Gecko (Firefox Quantum)</li>
 189   <li>Possible base for a WebVR/XR runtime, etc.</li>
 190   <li><a href="https://servo.org/">servo.org</a>,
 191     <a href="https://research.mozilla.org/servo-engines/">research.mozilla.org/servo-engines</a></li>
 192 </ul>
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 195 </article>
 196
 197 <article id="wasm" data-title="WebAssembly">
 198 <h1><span>WebAssembly (wasm)</span></h1>
 199
 200 <div class="simplebox">
 201 <img src="web-assembly-logo.svg" class="slidepic" alt="WebAssembly logo">
 202 <ul>
 203   <li>New, low-level, assembly-like language to run in browsers</li>
 204   <li>Backward-compatible with <a href="http://asmjs.org/">asm.js</a></li>
 205   <li>Good target to <mark>compile C/C++ or Rust</mark> (via
 206     <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Emscripten">Emscripten</a>)
 207     <mark>for the browser</mark></li>
 208   <li>Enables <mark>fast compute-intensive applications</mark> (games et al.) on the web</li>
 209   <li>Already supported in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari</li>
 210   <li><a href="http://webassembly.org/">webassembly.org</a></li>
 211 </div>
 212 </article>
 213
 214 <article id="iot" data-title="Project Things">
 215 <h1><span>IoT - Project Things</span></h1>
 216
 217 <div class="simplebox">
 218 <img src="mozilla_iot_illustration.png" class="slidepic" alt="Project Things illustration">
 219 <ul>
 220   <li>Experimental framework for connecting "things" to the web</li>
 221   <li>Target: decentralized Internet of Things that is safe, open and interoperable</li>
 222   <li><mark>Web Thing API: Proposed W3C standard</mark></li>
 223   <li>Things Gateway connects existing things/protocols to the web</li>
 224   <li>Cloud services are optional and configurable</li>
 225   <li><mark>Giving control back to the user</mark></li>
 226   <li><a href="https://iot.mozilla.org/">iot.mozilla.org</a></li>
 227 </ul>
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 230 </article>
 231
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 233
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 235 <h1 class="cent endslidetext">Questions?</h1>
 236 <h2 class="cent endslidetext"><span><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/technology/">mozilla.org/technology</a></span></h2>
 237 <h3 class="cent endslidetext"><span>kairo@kairo.at</span></h3>
 238 <img src="mister_tricorder.jpg" class="sshot endslidepic" alt="Data &amp; Mister Tricorder">
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