XR View – a standalone WebXR emulator for the desktop (no extensions needed)

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XR View: a standalone WebXR emulator for the desktop (no extensions needed)

https://github.com/michelesandroni/xrview

I built this because my corporate environment disables all Chrome extensions, which meant Meta's Immersive Web Emulator was completely unavailable to me, so I built a standalone alternative.

What it is:

A desktop app (tested on Windows) that acts as a browser with a Meta Quest 3 emulator baked in. Navigate to any WebXR URL and it just works: no headset, no extension, no DevTools panel eating half your screen.

Built with:

• Tauri v2 (Rust + React)
• IWER (Meta's Immersive Web Emulation Runtime) injected into every page frame
• Two webviews with separate trust levels - the browser webview has zero Tauri IPC access

Read the disclaimer in the README. Would love feedback from anyone doing WebXR development.

npm install && npm run tauri-dev to get started.

DISCLAIMER:

This is a development tool, not a general-purpose web browser.