Allows sites to query for estimates of the environmental lighting conditions within WebXr sessions. This exposes both spherical harmonics representing the ambient lighting, as well as a cubemap texture representing "reflections".

Motivation

Adding Lighting Estimation can help to make your models feel more natural and like they "fit" better with the user's environment. This can make them feel more "real" or "natural".

Demo

• https://storage.googleapis.com/chromium-webxr-test/latest.html?target=proposals/lighting-estimation.html

Documentation

• https://github.com/immersive-web/lighting-estimation/blob/master/lighting-estimation-explainer.md

Specification

Specification link

Status: Specification being incubated in a Community Group

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>WebXR>AR(Android)

Implementation status: Enabled by default

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Worth prototyping
• Edge: No signal
• Safari: No signal
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• alcooper@chromium.org
• bajones@chromium.org

Last updated on 2021-05-23