In Firefox Nightly appeared virtual reality

In the alpha version of Firefox introduced experimental support technology WebVR. Through a special extension WebVR Oculus Rift Enabler does now compatible with the helmet Oculus Rift.


Previously, to run applications of virtual reality you had to download a special version of Firefox. Now it was decided that the technology has matured enough to add it to one of the main branches. If all goes according to plan, in a few months and will WebVR mainline browser. However, we already know that in the beta version and the basic version of it will be disabled by default.
The above expansion WebVR Oculus Rift Enabler (source) just installs a library Oculus Rift SDK, which need to work Firefox. In the future, this library is also built right into the browser, so no additional extensions will not need.
Virtual reality applications in the browser currently run only in windows that do not support multithreading (Non-e10s).

Except when Direct-to-Rift (without installing the extension), developers are now trying to support virtual reality appeared in versions of Firefox under Linux and Android, as well as on the compatibility with Google Cardboard.


Source: xakep.ru