name: tinyworld-webxr description: Use when adding or modifying WebXR, AR placement, VR immersion, headset controller input, or XR rendering modes in Tiny World Builder.
Tiny World WebXR
Tiny World uses a pinned global THREE r185 compatibility bundle (vendor/three/tinyworld-three.r185.min.js), not runtime module imports or ARButton/VRButton addons. Keep WebXR integration vanilla and single-file inside tiny-world-builder.html.
Platform split — WebXR covers "Google" AR (Android Chrome / Quest, via immersive-ar + hit-test), but Apple devices have no WebXR. iOS/iPadOS web AR is AR Quick Look only: an <a rel="ar"> pointing at a .usdz opens the system viewer, which finds a surface, places the model, and lets the user walk around it. So both paths must exist for full coverage.
Patterns:
For Apple AR, export the live world to USDZ on demand with
THREE.USDZExporterfrom the r185 global bundle. USDZExporter only understandsMeshStandardMaterial, so snapshotworldGroupinto a fresh group, convert each Lambert/Basic/Shader material to a Standard equivalent (preserving colour/emissive/map), recentre on the origin with the base at y=0, and scale to a tabletop size. Wrap the resultingUint8Arrayin amodel/vnd.usdz+zipBlob → object URL, and launch via an<a rel="ar">that contains a single<img>child (Safari's requirement) clicked programmatically.Gate the Apple AR button on
document.createElement('a').relList.supports('ar'); gate the WebXR buttons onnavigator.xrsupport. Show the XR panel if either is available so iOS users see just the Apple AR button.Enable WebXR with
renderer.xr.enabled = trueand drive the main loop withrenderer.setAnimationLoop(animate)so desktop and headset frames share one path.Keep headset transforms on
xrWorldRoot, a scene-level parent for board/runtime meshes. Do not scale/moveworldGroupalone; hover, selection, clouds, weather, smoke, crop duster, and previews must stay in the same local world space.Keep controllers/reticles in
scene, notxrWorldRoot; they are physical XR-space objects.For AR desk mode, request
immersive-arwith requiredhit-test, optionalanchors, and adomOverlayroot. Use the reticle pose to setxrWorldRootand use anchors when available, but gracefully fall back to the last hit-test pose.For floating mode, prefer
immersive-ar, then fall back toimmersive-vr; place the mini board in front of the current XR camera.For inside mode, use
immersive-vrwithlocal-floorand leavexrWorldRootat meter scale (scale = 1) so one tile is walkable room scale.When picking tiles from controllers, raycast against
worldGroup.children, then converth.pointthroughxrWorldRoot.worldToLocal()before deriving tile-local offsets. Desktop pointer picking can keep using screen-space raycasts.Restore
scene.background,xrWorldRoottransform/visibility, reticle state, and UI state on XR session end or failure.
Validation:
npm testand the inline scriptnode --checkmust pass.- Real AR hit-test/VR entry requires HTTPS plus a headset/browser with WebXR support; browser smoke tests can only verify non-XR fallback UI and syntax.