This Wednesday, immersive collaboration platform Mozilla Hubs announced an expansion roadmap that sees the platform scale its regional coverage to reach more education and enterprise end-users.
Mozilla is kicking off its scalability plans with various updates that give enterprise end-users greater control over their account and infrastructure preferences.
With the updates, Mozilla aims to boost its Hub immersive collaboration solution to reach more customers. The news comes, as many immersive collaboration platforms, both AR and VR, are rising in popularity through trials and pilot programmes to support remote meetings.
Mozilla is looking to get a leg in the immersive collaboration space after a long development period starting in 2019. With its enterprise and education-facing growth initiatives, the Mozilla Hubs platform is notably expanding to new clients in 33 countries.
Mozilla Hubs’ international expansion includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweeden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.
The firm’s international expansion could prove crucial for enterprise end-users, as the global availability of an immersive collaboration service allows team members to collaborate virtually without overbearing regional restraints and helps scale immersive services to workers collaborating across different regions.
Moreover, successful enterprise immersive pilots, which prove decreased spending, increased ROI, and positive green outcomes, lead to decision-makers taking note of XR’s potential in the workplace.
Molliza Hub’s international expansion covers various regions in the EU, and the news comes as the European Commission looks to stimulate and promote competition for Metaverse and Web3 service providers.
Introducing Hubs Community Edition
Mozilla’s new open-source Hubs Community Edition service also aims to democratisation the development of client projects, with open infrastructure orchestration and autonomy for client projects.
According to the firm, its clients wish to manage their infrastructures for virtual world creation and utilisation completely. To support this, the firm is moving away from AWS, allowing for improved customizability and usability, enabling Hubs to grow as a product for broader use cases.
As part of its scalability mission, Mozilla Hubs is transitioning from its AWS-powered Hubs Cloud to Community Edition, which improves flexibility to suit the requirements of a more extensive market reach.
The move also means that Mozilla now allows its clients to build a Hub immersive collaboration project on any major cloud service provider, not just AWS.
Mozilla is launching Hubs Community Edition this summer. Additionally, the firm will drop support for Hub Cloud in January 2024. To support the change, Molliza also provides migration tools.
Fresh Professional Plans
Additionally, Mozilla Hubs is moving away from its Early Access sign-up avenue. Now, the firm is debuting a Professional plan as a part of its three subscription tier list—the firm tailor-made it’s new plan to match feedback from its enterprise clients.
Hubs Professional Plan contains various features to help enterprise end-users leverage virtual worlds. Some of the features also include:
- 25 GB of storage
- 50 guest capacity
- Custom domain creation
- Access to Hubs client code base
- Virtual world customizability
- UI customizability
- Support for always online virtual world support – operating 24/7
Moreover, the firm is debuting the Hubs Professional Plan today, starting at $79.
On the other hand, Mozilla offers cheaper options via its Personal tier, starting at $7 per month with 2GB of storage and 20 guest capacity. Moreover, prospective buyers can get hands-on with a free version that includes ten guest capacity and 500MB of storage.
