Chrome Canary adds Windows Mixed Reality support

Post-obit hints that it was in the works in January, the Chromium team has added initial support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets to Chrome'south development branch. A toggle for the characteristic has been added to the latest Chrome Canary build, allowing it to be toggled on or off while it's still in development (via Windows Latest).

The flag, which is alive in Chrome Canary builds 74.0.3710.0 and later, reads:

If enabled, Chrome will utilise Windows Mixed Reality devices for VR (supported but on Windows 10 or after). – Windows

Once enabled, the flag will allow anyone using a Windows Mixed Reality headset, such as the Samsung HMD Odyssey+, to browse the spider web with Chrome Canary using the WebVR standard. Information technology'southward unclear when Windows Mixed Reality back up will make its way to Chrome'southward release co-operative, just it's interesting to encounter that it's being worked on.

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Windows Mixed Reality support in Chrome Canary comes non long later Microsoft announced that information technology is switching its Edge browser'south base to Chromium. The motion will see Edge rebuilt from the basis up using Chromium, abandoning Microsoft'southward own Edge rendering engine and allowing the browser to exist used on Windows 7, Windows 8, and, potentially, Macs. With Chromium every bit a base, the rebuilt Edge volition also have access to Windows Mixed Reality support.

If you want to give Windows Mixed Reality support a shot, you lot tin download the latest Chrome Canary build from Google. Keep in mind that, because Chrome Canary is a nightly branch for developers, it's likely you'll run into some bugs here and there.

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