WebXR Device API

[alcooper91]

Request for position on an emerging web specification

• WebKittens who can provide input: @grorg as a WebKitten involved in Immersive Web CG/WG

Information about the specification

• Title: WebXR Device API
• URL: https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr/
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/immersive-web/webxr

Design reviews and vendor positions

• TAG Design Review: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/545
• W3C Transition to CR: https://github.com/w3c/transitions/issues/420
• Mozilla standards-positions issue: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/218

Bugs tracking this feature

• WebKit Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&component=WebXR&product=WebKit

Anything else we need to know

The specification is currently in CR and has been around for a while, evolving from the older WebVR spec. I suspect there may be some support thread in the archives; but I'd like to get a position recorded in this more easily linkable/searchable venue.

[hober]

@adarosecannon

[btutal]

It is good to hear that WebXR is available behind a feature flag on xrOS but seems like this feature flag has been removed on iOS and iPadOS 17 even though it was somehow available(at least visible) on iOS/iPadOS 16 builds.

What's the current position for this standard ?

[voxpelli]

WebXR has been in WebKit for over two years, so I assume this issue is more about when/how it's going to be exposed in Safari, right?

See eg: https://blogs.igalia.com/ifernandez/2021/01/webxr-webkit/

[annevk]

This issue is about determining the position of the WebKit community on the WebXR Device API specification. That's all.