Aurora Concept Browser Brings Internet Use to New Level

Let’s face it, as perfect as the web browser seems to be right now, it hasn’t changed that much since the first browsers of the mid-90s. What does our current browsers lack? Well, a high-tech interface and extremely-refined collaboration tools, of course, two things that the concept browser ‘Aurora’ by Adaptive Path delivers.

To better show-off what the concept is (or will be) capable of is explained in a few videos found on the Adaptive Path website, with two parts currently being online, and another two en route. I haven’t watched the second part, but I feel the first one informed me well enough. Aurora will be akin to interfaces we are used to seeing in high-tech movies, with clean design, incredibly intuitive and predictive interfaces and one that makes lots of advanced bleeps and bloops.

One example in the first video shows off the potential collaboration aspects of the browser. Two people are conversing, one says the rain isn’t bad while the other says it is. The guy on the other end essentially taps into the browser and shows the person exactly where it was that it said lots of rain was on the way. It’s definitely interesting, and if that intriques you, then the other videos are sure to please. The concepts right now seem far-fetched, but we didn’t imagine how things would have been today just ten years ago, either. Anything is possible.

The release of Aurora is part of the launch of Mozilla Labs’ browser concept series, an ongoing initiative to encourage designers and developers to contribute their own visions of the future of the browser and the Web. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be releasing more video segments, as well as background material showing just what went into imagining the future of the Web and translating that into a video.