Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: this.gl.setCompatibleXRDevice is not a function

[MannyMeadows]

Having successfully run the codelab examples yesterday, I've found that after today's Canary update I'm getting the above error on my S8 running Canary 73.0.3665.4 and Android 8.

The result is that the grey background and GIF remains while the camera feed is missing.

[dozenit]

Same thing on my Pixel XL (Android 9; Canary 73.03665.2)

The WebGLRenderingContext appears to have changed.
The method setCompatibleXRDevice was used for checking device compatibility. The WebXR Device API draft has been updated just recently, so I assume a structural change has to do with it.

This happens in line 132 in app.js:

this.gl = this.renderer.getContext();

// Ensure that the context we want to write to is compatible
// with our XRDevice
await **this.gl.setCompatibleXRDevice**(this.session.device);

Regarding Chromium, there are currently two issues about this function name; but they're both from August last year.

I have yet to find out how to properly get the XR device now. Any ideas?
(My guess would be that it might be done using the XR object instead, which is meant to be the entry point to the API, so this could avoid having to touch the GL context directly.)

The proposal entry for this method in the Immersive Web Github Repo is even older.

(It seems to have been like that for a long time now, as those lines of code above have also been used on some of the older webxr-examples from March 2018.)

[jsantell]

Looks like this function was changed to makeXRCompatible

[krzysioks]

Hi,
after following jsantell's comment I have changed call of setCompatibleXRDevice to makeXRCompatible. This solved the original issue, but new one has arised:

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: this.session.requestFrameOfReference is not a function at App.onSessionStarted

In the WebXR Device API draft: https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr/#dom-webglrenderingcontextbase-makexrcompatible there is no more reference to requestFrameOfReference. Might this function been changed also?

[jsantell]

There's been a few changes in Canary so the implementation is inbetween documented specs, so a bit hard to follow unfortunately. Check out these changes we've landed in model-viewer, it's mostly cosmetic name changes -- FYI this will be happening over the next few months, so the platform is still quite unstable.

Issues:

• WebXR API changes (XRViewerPose.views, XRView.viewMatrix) google/model-viewer#302
• Support new changes to WebXR API in Chrome M73 google/model-viewer#292
• Renamed getDevicePose to getViewerPose according to update in spec google/model-viewer#287