WebXR and the Immersive Web: Past, Present and Future

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It is easy to imagine a future where cheap and powerful stand-alone head-worn AR

and VR displays are central to the average person's everyday computing experience.

To ensure that the open web remains healthy in this new world, web APIs and

standards must be created to ensure that immersive experiences can be created,

delivered and consumed as freely as the 2D web is now.

Over the past two years at Mozilla, I’ve worked as part of the Immersive Web

community to bring AR and VR to the web, and web-based XR will soon be a reality.

In the near future, we will see prototype implementations of the WebXR Device API

begin to appear in major browsers on phones, tablets, traditional computers and

stand-alone AR and VR head-worn displays. In this talk I will discuss how WebXR

might support the diversity of sensing and world knowledge future AR devices will

make available to applications, including geolocation, content persistence, and

advanced capabilities like custom computer vision.