Aurora Concept Video
Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios.
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Aurora Videos
Press Coverage
SF Chronicle
Mozilla leads push to reimagine Web browsers
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"We just touched the surface of the potential on the Web," said Chris Beard, vice president of Mozilla Labs. "Now we need to turn up the volume and to get more people involved, explore what the future could look like and inspire us to do it."
As part of the project, Mozilla Labs has teamed up with San Francisco-based Adaptive Path - the designers behind MySpace's face-lift - which created a series of concept videos that showcase the potential browser of the future. They plan to introduce them today at adaptivepath.com/aurora.
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TechCrunch
Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To "Inspire And Engage" Community
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... People, places and things on the web are represented by objects in a three dimensional space. When users stop using objects, the objects drift off into the distance. Data objects can easily be dropped in and out of applications and communication tools are built into the UI.
Closely related objects are clustered together. As users rotate through the wheel (aka the dock) at the bottom of the page, the spacial view gives greater visual emphasis to clusters that are most closely related the object at the center of the wheel.
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Lifehacker
Aurora Concept Video Proposes the Future of the Web
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Jesse James Garrett (the guy who coined the term AJAX), designed and narrated part one of a video series demonstrating what the future of the web might look like. There's some gorgeous, imaginative, and high-tech stuff going on here.
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Boing Boing
Adaptive Path and Mozilla: future of Web-browsing video[excerpt]
Design firm Adaptive Path worked with Mozilla Labs to create an engaging concept video, titled Aurora, to communicate a forecast of future Web-browing experiences.
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Wired
Mozilla Labs Wants to Know Your Browser Fantasies[excerpt]
The video below is from Adaptive Path, a design firm co-founded by Jesse James Garrett (probably best known for Ajax). The project is called Aurora and offers a look at one possible direction for a browser of the future.
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