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Aurora Update: The Future of Browsing

August 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Technology

We covered the first two videos of the Aurora browser concept a while back. It’s a project of Adaptive Path and Mozilla Labs. This is the update on the development of the concept. This is part 3 and 4 of the videos for the future browser concept.

Video 3

This video shows us Aurora’s view on integrating the web with physical environment which is particularly focused for mobile use.

Video 4

It gets more interesting with the gestural interface. It’s like using a browser form the movie Minority Report. It shows how Aurora design would work on a large screen with a gestural interface which uses a camera to interpret the user’s gestures.

Aurora sure does promise a lot of cool things for future browsing. Aurora is super interactive and a real eye candy. What I am particularly interested in right now is the future of websites. From the looks of it, all the pages that they are browsing are full of widgets if not flash based. What will happen to the good old text pages like blogs and wikis? After all, the browser is only as good as the website it is visiting. That being said, Aurora is still a very interesting concept.

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Aurora: The Future Browsing Concept

August 7th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Technology

Adaptive Path partnered with Mozilla Labs produced a video of a concept browser model called Aurora. It’s a part of Mozilla Labs’ browser concept series which is an ongoing initiative to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of browsing and the web.

With Aurora, we set out to define a plausible vision of how technology, the browser, and the Web might evolve in the future by depicting that experience in a variety of real-world contexts.

Judging from the video, the Aurora concept is actually pretty cool. It looks like a combination of instant messaging service client, a browser and an online collaboration tool. The users can interact with each other within the browser. From what it looked like, you can even have someone do the browsing for you.