Wolvic Chromium 1.1 provides WebXR AR help to the open-source standalone XR browser, after 1.0 added eye tracked navigation.
Wolvic is the open-source successor to Firefox Actuality, which was an online browser for early standalone headsets like Oculus Go, the unique Oculus Quest, Vive Focus, and HoloLens 2. In 2020 Mozilla laid off 250 workers together with workers engaged on Firefox Actuality, and in 2022 handed over the challenge to “open supply software program consultancy” Igalia, which relaunched it as Wolvic.
Igalia has continued to develop Wolvic within the two years since, and in the present day Wolvic is offered on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses. Wolvic nonetheless helps Firefox Sync, letting you keep your bookmarks, tabs, and passwords throughout units.
Earlier this yr, Igalia launched a Chromium model Wolvic, with higher efficiency. Presently the Chromium model is offered as an APK to obtain, whereas the Gecko model continues to be the one obtainable on app shops.
Initially, WebXR solely supported totally immersive VR, and this limitation nonetheless exists on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional for instance. The WebXR Augmented Actuality module lets net apps use passthrough or transparency because the background.
The Horizon OS Browser and Pico Browser each already help the WebXR AR module. Now, the Chromium model of the open-source Wolvic browser does too.
WebXR AR in Wolvic.
Wolvic Chromium 1.1 additionally provides help for downloadable VR environments, seen in flatscreen searching mode. And the replace comes simply over a month after the 1.0 launch, which we missed masking in all the various bulletins of September.
Replace 1.0’s main characteristic was eye tracked navigation. It implies that on headsets with eye monitoring like Meta Quest Professional, you may choose together with your eyes, and pinch together with your fingers, as you’ll in Safari on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. This might make Wolvic the net browser of selection for Quest Professional homeowners.
The replace additionally introduced various minor enhancements, resembling password autofill in non-public searching mode and dozens of bug and stability fixes.
The Wolvic builds on app shops are nonetheless Gecko-based, so to get the Chromium model of Wolvic that you must obtain the APK and sideload it.