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And thanks, glad you liked the slides!
That said, for obvious reasons, most research is being done in the US. I'd love to see more surveys and studies target more markets and globally.
With Unity and the Epic Unreal Engine, the goal is to be able to build games that will be able to run anywhere in a web/WebGL context: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/03/27/mozilla-is-unlockin...
I believe it's also about finding ways to make interpreted code much more optimized as well. We also fairly recently had a blog post about asm.js and where it's going: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/asm-js-performance-improve...
Basically, the definition of tools is third party tools such as: ad networks, cloud computing, cross-platform (e.g. PhoneGap), games (Unity etc) and more.
On Cordova/PhoneGap and Firefox OS, please see https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/02/building-cordova-apps-for-...
More information at https://hacks.mozilla.org/about/
And exactly, we both want to help out and also identify what developers have issues with.
Edit: Disclaimer, I work for Mozilla