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Maintaining Long Distance Friendships with Hubs
Maintaining Long Distance Friendships with Hubs
We keep in touch with close ones who live far away in a variety of ways. There are so many things and moments that we might want to share with them. Flux VR allows us to not only stay in touch, but to also create shared memories together, despite the physical distance.
FluxVR_HubsMozilla.mp4Experience Detail
Experience Detail
The concept is to include Flux VR as a Hubs feature that makes the transition between physical and virtual reality frictionless. Reducing friction may create a sense of permeability, creating ease and room for new explorations of the Hubs space.
We think it can serve as an especially rich touchpoint between loved ones who want to keep in touch and are separated by physical proximity. Flux VR would allow Hubs to be accessed very naturally from the physical world, and people can use their physical devices to curate content within Hubs, without necessarily having to be inside Hubs first. They can do this by selecting content from their device, and sharing it directly to Hubs, which creates a Room with the content spawned inside of it. They can then share the link to the Hubs Room with friends via native sharing platforms. We imagine that the sense of permeability would be achieved if there is a frictionless experience of placing content into Hubs from physical devices, as well being able to access communication platforms on someone's physical device from within Hubs.
Additionally, while people are inside of Hubs, we imagine that they can contact others who might be in other Hubs rooms, creating a rich intra-Hubs communication system to invite each other to spaces or to explore other friends' spaces.
In this way, adding Flux VR to Hubs is a way of strengthening communication and shared experiences between friends, family and loved ones.
Key Elements of Concept:
- Seamlessly and naturally being able to access Hubs, no matter where a person may be in their physical context to make the experience much more contextually relevant to one’s life. It also makes it much more engaging and fun. You can, for example, randomly surprise your friend with a memory!
- Being able to drop in media content for another friend to see later from a personal device, without having to be in Hubs first. The person can keep adding to the same Hubs room and communication between them can be asynchronous.
- 360 content (no matter which file format) can be placed in Hubs. People can experience it solo or together with a group of people. Sharing and experiencing this content becomes easier.
- Intra-Hubs communication: send invites to a friend that might be in VR to join your own Hub , while you are also in VR.
- Inside to Outside : Send invitations (perhaps using WhatsApp as an example) from within Hubs to another person outside of Hubs, inviting them to join you.
- Using physical devices (like phone / computer) as curation tools for the content within Hubs. For example, being able to "live stream" from you camera phone into Hubs, while you are in Hubs.
- Sending images that you take in inside Hubs to your devices directly. These would be saved in a Hubs folder on a phone, enabling a person to access those moments and memories that were created in Hubs during their daily life.
Audience
Audience
- Friends, family or loved ones who are far apart
- 1:1 relationships or a small private group of people
Value for Mozilla & the open web
Value for Mozilla & the open web
- Flux VR would make Hubs feel like a natural part of the communication ecosystem. As a rich touchpoint, it would impact how expansive the usage is as a mean of strengthening or maintaining personal relationships. Going in and out of physical realities and virtual realities with loved ones, becomes much less about the feature or the medium that's facilitating this, and much more about the relationship itself and creating memories together, despite the physical distance.
- Mozilla may be the first to introduce the feature of Flux VR but perhaps it is a tool that can be included to any VR platform, thereby making VR spaces much more accessible from a person's life in the conventional reality.
Concept Roadmap
Concept Roadmap
NEAR TERM
- Include share Hubs button in the native share feature on mobile devices to be able to drop something into Hubs.
- People can select any media content from their personal device and share it in a Hubs room.
- Tapping on Hubs would take them through the process of creating a new Hubs room, and spawn the content that was placed inside.
MEDIUM TERM
- People will be able to save media content generated within a Hubs room directly onto their physical device.
- When people create a Hubs room, they would be able to choose if it is a "Temporary" Hubs or a "Persistent" Hubs.
- To "Persistent" Hubs, people would be able to continue adding content to the same Hubs by selecting from the spaces that they are a part of, without being co-present.
- Hubs to Hubs invitations - people would be able to send Hubs invitations to other friends inside VR.
DREAM SCENARIO
- Being able to access personal IoT devices inside of a Hubs space-
- As the familiarity of Hubs spaces grows, and Hubs has the ability to be persistent, people would be able to provide any purpose to the Hubs room as they please. Perhaps if there was a "Home Hubs" for an individual, they would be able to access all of their IoT devices, from anywhere.
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