What is Mozilla Hubs?
Mozilla Hubs is a social virtual reality platform that allows users to create and explore virtual 3D spaces, called “hubs”. It provides an immersive social experience by enabling real-time communication between users in the form of text and voice chat.
Some key features of Mozilla Hubs include:
- Customizable 3D environments - Users can build their own virtual spaces and customize them with 3D objects and scenery using simple building tools.
- Multiuser support - Multiple users can join the same hub, see each other as avatars, and interact through voice and text chat.
- Cross-platform accessibility - Hubs works across desktop and VR headsets. Desktop users without a VR headset can still view and interact with the 3D environments using mouse and keyboard.
- Privacy focused - No account creation is required to use Hubs. There is an option to create aHub account but it is not mandatory.
- Open source - As a Mozilla project, Hubs is completely open source allowing community contributions.
Overall, Mozilla Hubs aims to push virtual reality technology towards being an open, accessible and decentralized communication medium rather than a walled garden dominated by big tech companies.
Second Life, VRChat, Antler Club, ChilloutVR, Workadventure, High Fidelity, VirBELA, Vircadia, OpenSimulator, AltspaceVR, Kitely, Shoppp3d, STAGE by vr-on are some alternatives to Mozilla Hubs.