Mozilla announced the launch of the service Hubs Cloud hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services), which enables organizations to run their own private virtual space that can be configured according to their needs.
Perhaps you have heard about Hubs is a web — platform social virtual reality Mozilla, which allows members mobile, desktop and virtual networks to unite in the virtual space directly through the web browser.
While anyone can create and join rooms in the hubs for free, Safari now gives the platform that organizations can use it as the basis for their own virtual spaces that can be configured and expanded to meet their needs.
Cloud Hubs, currently available in early access, you can deploy on the AWS server, to enable organizations to manage their own virtual spaces in their own domains and on their own terms. It’s like WordPress — a popular content management system, which is the basis for many websites, from travel blogs to large online stores but instead of creating a conventional web site Hubs Cloud creates a virtual space that are fully owned by the host and are controlled by them.
Mozilla says that Cloud Hubs allows you to perform high-level configuration, for example, enables organizations to run instances on their own domains and customized branding, avatars and environment. For those who want to do more Hubs Cloud also gives organizations the right to create their own advanced features and capabilities, where things get really interesting.
For example, a company engaged in electronic Commerce may adapt its payment system to its platform, to allow users to purchase goods directly to the virtual showroom of the company. Or, maybe another company wants to use Cloud Hubs as their own private corporate conference rooms — they can connect to their corporate account, to demand the credentials of the company in order to access these rooms. Given that Hubs has open source, there is essentially a limit for organizations that want to extend the platform in any convenient way. In addition, organizations have the opportunity to contribute your code back to the project to make Hubs even the best Cloud platform for others.
Mozilla makes the Hubs on the AWS Cloud is available in personal and enterprise versions; despite the fact that they have the same features, the company claims that “Personal” is designed to launch small instances to reduce costs, and have scalability constraints within the entire system. While AWS is the first cloud provider that has launched a Cloud Hubs, Mozilla says that working to bring the platform on DigitalOcean (the American provider of cloud infrastructure).
It is a powerful move by Mozilla, as the company acts as the activator for the virtual spaces in the Internet and not trying to “own” these spaces as part of their own closed ecosystem. You can even use Hubs Cloud as the basis for their own social VR a closed ecosystem.
The goal of Mozilla’s Cloud Hubs — to decentralize the social virtual space, giving people the ability to easily create and post your own, as easy as to create and host your own website.
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