Nearby Web

with people and things

unleash the web to the new frontier

http://www.azween.com/2014/04/i-am-unifi-ed.html

“As a user, no matter internet is available or not, I want to connect with people and things in my live space, so I can comfortably get things done.”

Our approach

• Identify Scenarios & use cases
• to find entry point to the market
• Discover proper interface (fxos only)
• to interactive with our life space: firefox homie
• Figure out webNearby API Set (standard)
• to utilize wifi & bluetooth: webNearby

Scenarios

what if we can do these without internet

(& make the experience feel like on web)

Nearby Space

contextual switch for lifespace & people/things nearby

apply contextual scenario to my

nearby phone/desktop

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hollyphotography/4430632382

switch my digital identity based on Life Space

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bluepaper/8656926464

open lights/close door when I nearby

https://www.flickr.com/photos/castrrr89/6346937026

Physical Web

web nearby me

Browse & leave message to

people (& things) nearby you

https://www.flickr.com/photos/reasonstoloveyou/4423152683

Create time/location critical

content for people

nearby you

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/stewdean/2286093

Nearby Chat

without internet connection

text/sticker chat in a transporting bus

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23875695@N06/5572632928

voice messaging in outdoor cowork

http://www.takwak.com/tl_files/takwak/redakteur/seiteninhalte/outdoor/seitenhintergrund-bilder/_MG_2610_c.jpg

Nearby Share

without internet connection

share media/screen

with those around you

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenstein/10680940073

share content with

those around you

https://www.flickr.com/photos/don3rdse/7137588197

(AirDrop for everyone)

Digital Identity

what I want to share with

Help validate people & things nearby me

and only expose what I want to share with

https://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4638981545

3 Questions & Answers

Value - a disruptive innovation

• Sense the physical world in web way
• Enable local share & plenty of scenarios
• Connect nearby people & things, bring new landscape to OS/web competition
• Prevent wall-gardenize the IoT/personal network & digital identity

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Tech advantage

• Even 128mb device has bluetooth & wifi
• A set of features make Nearby Web possible. It means for followers it need time to catch up.
• Full experience need platform/api and system level interaction therefore cant be done by only app side.

Why Invest

• Enabling technology that support location base and human/thing based scenarios (blue ocean)
• Possibility to corp with other Mozilla's products (firefox account, web maker..)
• The experience not found in other platform exceed user’s expectation

What Nearby Group is thinking now

Join to make it happen https://fxos-v3.slack.com/messages/web-nearby/

Thanks

tech reference listed after slide

Think in the box (User)

What if we utilize

& to help user

interactive with their

life space,

with/out internet?

Think in a box (API)

100m Range

30m Range

What if we use signal range and strength to trigger behaviour/identify people & things

or

(not have to be actually connected)

Scenario I: Nearby Chat without internet connection

• text/sticker chat in classroom
• (non instant) voice messaging in outdoor cowork
• leave message to people(&things) nearby you

(inspired by Firechat)

Scenario II: Nearby Share without internet connection

• share content with my desktop browser
• share content with those around you
• transfer apps/media
• +resumable download when sharers are not connected

webRTC implement https://www.sharedrop.io

Scenario III Nearby Space

• apply contextual scenario to my nearby phone/desktop browser/things
• switch my digital identity based on Life Space
• open lights/close door when I nearby
• share content or chat with things

Scenario IV Physical Web

• sense (a web site) near you, browse it on device/on internet
• share image/content in a fb-page-like stream (on my phone), so nearby people could read
• share content or chat with nearby people & things

Scenario V: Digital Identity

• Help me validate my nearby people & things
• Resolve trust issue for nearby scenarios

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tech reference (moz base)

• Firefox Homie mindmap
• Bluetooth 4.x + BLE (APIv2)
• Firefox hello: webRTC video/audio chat
• FxOS web server (tcp socket API) : host content https://github.com/justindarc/fxos-web-server
• Firefox account: identity
• WebMaker: create content

tech reference (outside)

• physical web (bt broadcast url) https://google.github.io/physical-web/
• piratebox (local communication) http://piratebox.cc/faq
• webtorrent (resumable transfer) https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

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Before 2007(iOS), Web is..

• served by
• internet (host a web server)
• brought to you by
• portal
• search engine

Now, Mobile Web is

• served by
• internet / API
• app (webview)
• bring to you by
• social (facebook)
• Instant Messenger (WhatsApp, LINE, WeChat..)

Future, Nearby Web is..

• served by
• phone
• things
• bring to you by
• friends
• people
• things