2021 Product Roadmap

This document aims to serve as a place to share our most-up-to-date thinking on our H1 (January - June) 2021 product roadmap with the community. Please note that work is subject to change - our team works in an agile fashion, which means that new information might change our priorities and we could end up adjusting accordingly.

In Progress

Hubs Engine

• Support for reading and rendering compressed textures
• Reticulum updates to improve stability and reliability of hubs.mozilla.com
• Audio/voice quality & stability improvements
• Backend API that allows authorized users to perform a limited set of tasks related to room management

Hubs Cloud

• Improve resource management during stack tear down
• Release the new UI update

Planned

Hubs Engine

• Ability to grant a single user the ability to project their voice in a space
• Update three.js
• Ship an updated version of media frames to reduce complexity of adding media to a scene
• Improved workflow for localizing the Hubs client
• Improved accessibility for screen readers
• Add emoji menu to the chat window
• Gracefully handle deprecation of Google Poly assets

Hubs Cloud

• Update botocore dependency
• Configuration of ports for services in a restricted network

Considering

• Support for networked interactions that can be authored in Spoke
• Improvements for video streaming and screen sharing
• Nametag updates
• Jumbotron / speaker camera functionality to stream from one part of a Hubs room to another area in the scene

Last Updated: 2/25/21