Igalia Wolvic (browser)

The main articles are:

• Web browser
• Virtual Reality (VR, Virtual Reality)
• Augmented Reality (AR, Augmented Reality)

2023: Wolvic 1.3

On February 14, 2023, it became known that the release of the Wolvic 1.3 web browser, designed for use in augmented and virtual reality systems, was published. The project continues to develop the Firefox Reality browser, previously developed by Mozilla. After the stagnation of the Firefox Reality codebase as part of the Wolvic project, Igalia continued to develop it. Ready-made builds are formed for the Android platform. Supported work with 3D helmets Oculus, Huawei VR Glass, HTC Vive Focus, Pico Neo, Pico4, Pico4E, Meta (recognized as an extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) Quest Pro and Lynx (also porting the browser for Qualcomm and Lenovo devices ).

As reported, the browser uses the GeckoView web engine, a variant of the Mozilla Gecko engine, designed as a separate library that can be updated independently. Control is carried out through a different three-dimensional user interface, which allows you to navigate sites inside the virtual world or as part of augmented reality systems. In addition to the interface designed for control through a 3D helmet, which allows you to view traditional two-dimensional pages, web developers can use the WebXR, WebAR and WebVR APIs to create specialized three-dimensional web applications that interact with them in virtual space. It also supports viewing 3D helmets of spatial videos shot in 360-degree mode.

VR controllers are used for navigation, and virtual or real keyboard for entering data into web forms. In addition, a voice input system is offered to interact with the user, which makes it possible to fill out forms and send search queries using the speech recognition engine developed in Mozilla. As a start page, the browser provides an interface for accessing favorite content and navigating a collection of games adapted for 3D helmets, web applications, 3D models and spatial videos.

In this version:

• Added support for 3D helmets Pico4, Pico4E and Meta Quest Pro.
• An updated file download dialog has been implemented.
• The download manager optimizes the display of thumbnails and long names.
• The download manager has added the context menu "Share with other apps," with which you can make downloaded files visible to other Android applications and move them to the Downloads system directory.
• A backend based on the implementation of the OpenXR standard has been proposed for Pico devices.
• All supported platforms are switched by default to the OpenXR backend, which introduces support for the cylindrical layers required to build multi-window systems.
• Pico and Meta devices have the ability to track the position of their hands.
• Added initial support for hand rendering in a 3D environment and the ability to control gestures (for example, pinches with the thumb and index finger for clicking, and pinches with the thumb and middle finger for returning).
• Autodetection of web applications is provided and an interface for managing web applications is added.
• Added a dialog for installing stand-alone web applications (PWA).
• It is possible to install add-ons from local xpi files.
• The ability to play video on sites using DelightXR has been implemented.
• The navigation bar is hidden during full-screen video viewing.
• Optimized texture quality in the default environment.
• The browser ID has been changed to "Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile VR; rv: 105.0) Gecko/105.0 Firefox/105.0 Wolvic/1.3 "(previously there was a mention of Firefox Reality).
• Mozilla browser components for Android have been updated to version 75 with support for the updated API^[1].