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== October 15th, 2018 ==
* '''Close Conversation is the Future of Social VR''' -- Most user studies depend on participants doing their best to carry out a task designed and requested by a researcher. Our Hubs project team just published a [https://blog.mozvr.com/close-conversation-is-the-future-of-social-vr/ usability study] in which users invited to explore social virtual reality mostly ignored instructions and just started goofing off with each other once they entered the immersive space. Delightfully, that helped us see how people found that space to be natural, private, personal, and fun. We’ve begun a redesign of the Hubs experience based on these findings, which you can check out for yourself (or better yet, with a friend) at https://hubs.mozilla.com.
* '''Listen to your Pocket''' -- Pocket 7.0 shipped this past week and with a new reader capability powered by technology from ET’s Scout project, including generating the audio server-side so we have much more control and higher-quality voices. In fact, can you tell [https://soundcloud.com/kelly-jay-davis/sets/qbr-examples which voice] is human and which is generated by our Text To Speech model? We bet you can’t, but either way you should definitely give Pocket 7.0 a try.
* '''Your Home, Your Data''' -- Version 0.6.0 of Things Gateway by Mozilla was released by our Project Things team with a special focus home monitoring capabilities that let you keep an eye on the state of your home over the web. [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/home-monitoring-with-things-gateway-0-6/ Version 0.6] adds support for door sensors, motion sensors and customisable push notifications and a wider range of Apple HomeKit devices, as well as general robustness improvements and better error reporting. Everything a connected home needs, but no monthly fees, your private data stays in your home by default, and you can choose from a variety of sensors from different brands.
== October 8th, 2018 ==
