Creating Virtual Reality Spaces with Mozilla Hubs: Designers’ Expectations and Applications in AudioVisuals Creativity

EasyChair Preprint 9956

Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) spaces have become easily accessible due to the evolution of web VR standards and frameworks. In parallel, VR development tools have become more user-friendly and provide non-experienced designers the ability to design VR applications for the web. Under this light, this work aims to explore the designers’ expectations from such tools and their perspective regarding the potential applications in the audiovisuals creativity domain. In this work, in order to accomplish its goal a small group of young designers is employed to be trained in the use of a web VR development platform, i.e., Mozilla Hubs, and to provide their feedback regarding the types of applications they are interested in designing. Their responses are analyzed in order to provide a set of instructions suitable to serve most of their requirements in designing VR applications with the considered platform as well as for providing information on the adoption of VR technologies and applications by the so-called “digital natives” generation.

Keyphrases: Mozilla Hubs, digital exhibits, virtual reality exhibitions

@booklet{EasyChair:9956,
  author    = {Fani Tsiamalou and Despoina Sigourtzidou and Vasileios Komianos},
  title     = {Creating Virtual Reality Spaces with Mozilla Hubs: Designers’ Expectations and Applications in AudioVisuals Creativity},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 9956},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}