Firefox Reality for PC-connected VR platforms
Firefox Reality PC Preview (FxRPC) is a new VR web browser that provides 2D overlay browsing alongside immersive apps and supports web-based immersive experiences for PC-connected VR headsets.
This experimental browser consists of two components:
FirefoxReality.exe
. This is responsible for launching a bundled, custom build of Firefox (for Preview or Local builds) or for downloading/installing Firefox. The first run of the launcher also has additional operations for set up, such as creating an FxRPC-specific profile and installing VR-specific webextensions.Building FxRPC involves building both components mentioned above, which also involves installing tools for both components.
Comprehensive instructions for building Desktop Firefox on Windows is available here.
The only divergence from the instructions is to account for Git instead of Mercurial:
git clone https://github.com/MozillaReality/gecko-dev.git
Note: After building, you will need the path to the folder that contains firefox.exe
for the Launcher. To find this path, run
./mach environment
to find the object directory. The executable will be in the subdirectory dist\bin
Source\FirefoxRealityUnity
with Unity version 2019.3.0b9firefox.exe
(see Note in section above), a folder for the profile, and a folder for the build output. The title of the dialogs indicate which type folder to select.To run FxRPC, simply launch FirefoxReality.exe
from the output folder in step 7 above.