[webkit-dev] WebXR on WebKit

[Dean Jackson]

Hi Sergio! Thanks for the patch and apologies for the silence. I'll take a look.

Dean

> On 12 Mar 2020, at 20:21, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar at igalia.com> wrote:
> 
> Not sure how to interprete silence. BTW patch[*] is now ready to be
> reviewed as all EWS are happy with it.
> 
> BR
> 
> [*] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208702
> 
> O Ven, 06-03-2020 ás 12:56 +0100, Sergio Villar Senin escribiu:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've just uploaded a patch[1] (based on previous work from my
>> colleague
>> Žan Doberšek) which brings a very basic WebXR[2] support for WebKit.
>> Right now is just IDLs, stubs and pretty basic platform code, mostly
>> empty implementations anyway.
>> 
>> You can see WebXR[3] as the evolution of the deprecated WebVR API
>> (which I recently removed from the tree). The idea is bringing the
>> experience of mixed reality worlds (from VR to AR) to the Web by
>> using
>> the appropriate devices.
>> 
>> This new spec was not born in a semi-deprecated state as WebVR did.
>> It's currently partially shipped in Chrome/Edge[4]. Firefox has not
>> shipped it yet but Mozilla has been one of the original authors of
>> the
>> specs with some proposals dating back to 2017. There is ongoing work
>> to
>> support the spec[5].
>> 
>> It's worth mentioning that there are already several WPT tests[6] for
>> the feature (my plan is to import them ASAP and make them work as
>> APIs
>> are implemented).
>> 
>> Another important difference from the WebVR era is that right now we
>> have a multiplatform Khronos standarized API for accessing VR/AR
>> devices and platforms called OpenXR[7]. My plan is to implement all
>> the
>> platform code using OpenXR as a reference. This would allow us to use
>> even the same platform code for different ports. AFAIK there is no
>> OpenXR implementation and loader available at the moment for
>> MacOS/iOS
>> but I guess it'll eventually happen (in any case the platform code
>> could be implemented without using OpenXR of course).
>> 
>> Privacy has been always a concern in the WebKit project and now it
>> gained the status of project goal. That's why I'd also like to
>> mention
>> here that privacy&security was also considered[8] since the very
>> beginning. For example, when I attended the TPAC F2F meeting of the
>> WebXR WG there was a joint session with the privacy CG where
>> fingerprinting and other potential threat vectors were discussed.
>> 
>> Last but not least, I'll focus this early stages of development in
>> the
>> WPE port, meaning that for example I'll be maintaining just the WPE
>> build configuration (other ports won't be affected). My plan is to
>> extend the support to other ports as the implementation matures.
>> 
>> Opinions?
>> 
>> BR
>> 
>> [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208702
>> [2] https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr/
>> [3] https://github.com/immersive-web/webxr/blob/master/explainer.md
>> [4] https://caniuse.com/#search=webxr
>> [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614496
>> [6] 
>> https://wpt.fyi/results/webxr?label=experimental&label=master&aligned
>> [7] https://www.khronos.org/openxr/
>> [8] https://github.com/immersive-web/privacy-and-security
>> 
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