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Mozilla Emerging Technologies
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Mozilla Emerging Technologies
New Technologies for the Open Web
Robert Kaiser,
"KaiRo" <kairo@kairo.at>
Mozilla Tech Speaker
Mozilla Tech Speaker
Slides: https://slides.kairo.at/linuxwochen2018/
- Created for a presentation at Linuxwochen 2018 in Wien/Vienna.
- Written in HTML 5 with CSS 3 and JavaScript.
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04/2018 Robert Kaiser - "Mozilla", "Firefox" and their logos are trademarks of Mozilla Foundation.
Emerging Technologies Group
- R&D organization @ Mozilla, a.k.a. Mozilla Research
- research.mozilla.org
- mozilla.org/technology
- Multiple teams for different technologies
Mixed Reality (XR)

- WebXR - Virtual & Augmented Reality (WebVR & AR)
- research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality
- webvr.info - WebVR API, Open Standard
- In concert with WebGL, WebAudio and Gamepad APIs
- Windows: Firefox release, Mac: Nightly, Linux: in development
A-Frame - XR Made Simple

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Open Media Codecs - Daala & AV1

- Opus: royalty-free, open, universal audio codec
- Next target: do the same with video
- Mozilla/Xiph: Daala + Google: VP9 + Cisco: Thor
- Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) for collaboration
- AV1 bitstream frozen since April 2018
- Next: De-/Encoding perf, hardware support, ...
Speech & Machine Learning

- Common Voice: Open repository for voice recordings
- Machine learning to train speech-to-text (STT) systems
- DeepSpeech / Pipsqueak: Mozilla STT, open source
- Offline speech recognition engine, for security + privacy, can run on RPi3
- Only 6.5% error rate on first released model
- research.mozilla.org/machine-learning
Programmiersprache - Rust
Web-Engine - Servo
WebAssembly
IoT - Things Gateway
Fragen?
