Summary

We’ve seen a lot of new things on our trip through the BJS Metatropolis. We’ve heard of new wonders under construction but ready for business, such as VR and AR with WebXR. To help developers make use of these wonders, we learned about how Babylon.js offers the WebXRExperienceHelper. Working in conjunction with the FeaturesManager, it allows developers to code with confidence against a rapidly evolving and changing standard.

Babylon.js is a project that places backward compatibility as one of its cornerstone principles, and so as hardware improves – or more products open up their hardware to WebXR APIs – capabilities will “light up” as browser vendors add support. While it would be great to include iOS (and WebKit) in the supported application list today for WebXR, and while we can lament for a world that could have been, applications using Babylon.js will be ready to best take advantage when that day finally does arrive.

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