[ryanackley]

Don't get me wrong because this is a cool technological achievement if it can deliver as promised.

However, when they originally announced this in May, my impression was that this was going to be open sourced and a part of Firefox. I found that to be really exciting.

It turns out, it's just another business trying to show us the future. Nothing wrong with that but it doesn't excite me as much.

Also, Brendan Eich is an advisor to Otoy, the company behind ORBX.js. Is it just me or does anyone else think that it's a conflict of interest for him to market a for-profit service/product via Mozilla? It's not clear what exactly Mozilla's involvement is in this project and what do they get out of it besides a broader web ecosystem?

[sandyman]

If it weren't for Mozilla creating broadway.js, ORBX.js would never have happened. Andreas' work on this libary was they key inspiration for ORBX.js. Since May, Mozilla has helped us optomize the JS code (which was key post FF22 when the JS VM changed), and is helping us move the decoder entirely to the GPU in WebGL2. I think at some point we would like to open source the older ORBX.js codecs as we iterate on this first version, but even that doesn't make much sense until we get a stable file format for video. Right now ORBX.js is tuned for live streaming. That will change with v2, which is we're targeting for early next year with compression close to HEVC - see http://aws.otoy.com/docs/ORBX2_Whitepaper.pdf