WebGPU renderer

[pjcozzi]

This is a long-term roadmap issue to track development of NXT, the NeXT generation graphics API for the Web (similar to #797 for WebGL 2).

• https://github.com/gpuweb/nxt-standalone

[pjcozzi]

• Designing a Next-Gen Graphics API for the Web

[pjcozzi]

NXT is the old name. This is WebGPU now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU

[pjcozzi]

• WebGPU is coming to Babylon.js
• Next-Generation 3D Graphics on the Web (Google I/O ’19)
• WebGPU Implementation Status
• WebGPU Meeting Minutes

[pjcozzi]

• webgpu-examples - small examples of SPIR-V compatible WebGPU usage

[pjcozzi]

• Advice to start using WebGL 2 uniform buffers to ease migration to WebGPU. https://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/1340503959321018368

[gberaudo]

WebGPU is coming to chromium: https://blog.chromium.org/2021/08/chrome-94-beta-webcodecs-webgpu.html.
They announce a plan to ship in chrome 99, early 2022.

[pjcozzi]

• WebGPU Best Practices from Brandon Jones

[indeexx]

When will it be released?🤔️
I'm... looking... forward....to...it.....😄

[ggetz]

Hi @indeexx, we don't have any immediate plans to start work on this. We'll likely update this issue when we do. Let us know if you have any thoughts or questions regarding the implementation in the meantime. Thanks!

[tlightsky]

Do we have some plan for this feature?