On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 4:16:56 PM UTC-7, Kip Gilbert wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> In order to unblock sandboxing of the GPU process and efforts to re-enable 
> macOS WebVR support, we are moving the VR device interfacing code to its own 
> “VR Service” process.  This process will only be launched when a user 
> accesses a WebVR site.
> 
> The bugs to enable this by default will flip two prefs:
> 
> Bug 1476092 (Enable the VR process by default)
> Bug 1473399 (Enable VRService thread by default)
> 
> This change will not affect the WebVR API or otherwise be user facing.
> 
> I expect to flip these prefs before the upcoming soft-freeze (2018-08-23).
> 
> Any feedback is welcome, thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   *   Kearwood “Kip” Gilbert

Addendum - We've decided to flip the prefs after the merge date and let this 
run a full cycle in Nightly.  FF64 would be the first with the VR process 
enabled by default.
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