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WebGPU/WebXR integration is ready for developers to start testing in Chrome canary! Available on Windows and Android with a couple of small example pages to get you started. Please give it a try, file bugs, and give us feedback! #WebGPU #WebXR

toji.devExperimenting with WebGPU in WebXRFor the last few months I’ve been working on implementing experimental support for WebGPU/WebXR integration in Chrome, and now it’s ready for developers to try on Windows and Android!

James Clifford Kane

@jamesckane.bsky.social

4 Mar 2025

What are the biggest potential wins from WebGPU in WebXR? Is it just broadly more performant, or only for specific things? Could it allow more real-time lighting?

Brandon Jones

@toji.dev

WebGPU offers new features like Compute Shaders that can make better use of the GPU, and the API structure is designed to be less CPU heavy. Doing a direct port of WebGL code isn't necessarily going to result in automatic perf gains, but it gives developers a lot more tools to optimize with.

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Brandon Jones

@toji.dev

4 Mar 2025

To speak to your example of more real time lights, WebGPU's compute shaders make it much easier to implement techniques like Clustered Shading which are aimed at enabling large numbers of realtime lights.