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by PaulHoule 1568 days ago
Mozilla has long been interested in adding AR/VR capabilities to the browser

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebXR_Devic...

At a certain point you might not have enough third party devs to really exercise an API or drive adoption and developing a first party app is a good way to get the party started.

Assuming all the action takes place in a confined room it is not a particularly difficult problem to solve compared to an OASIS or Sword Art Online-like virtual environment which would have the problems of an open world game to solve.