© Rakesh Baruah 2021
R. BaruahAR and VR Using the WebXR APIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6318-1_1

1. Getting Started

Rakesh Baruah1  
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Brookfield, WI, USA
 

WebXR is not a programming language; it’s not even a library of code we can access to create our apps. WebXR is a specification developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, a nonprofit group of industry experts who collaborate to create standard protocols across the Web. The W3C has left the implementation of the WebXR guidelines to the developers of browsers. WebXR, therefore, is nothing more than a set of rules agreed upon by industry.

Not to be confused with the WebXR specification, the WebXR API is an implementation of the WebXR feature set. The WebXR API serves as an interface between ...

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