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The one I can think of is Google Meet, where some GPU-thing is used to add background effects such as blur. However I'm not sure this actually uses WebGPU; it u
by mort96 1y ago
The one I can think of is Google Meet, where some GPU-thing is used to add background effects such as blur. However I'm not sure this actually uses WebGPU; it used to use on Firefox until Google added a browser check, and AFAIK, if you could fool Meet to think Firefox was Chrome, it would still work.
This might still be a semi-legitimate thing, i.e maybe they kept around a WebGL implementation for a while as a fallback but moved the main implementation to WebGPU and don't want to maintain the fallback. It certainly fits well into their strategy of making sure that the web really only works properly with Chrome.
- firtoz 1y agoI'm on Brave Linux which requires special flag for WebGPU (not turned on for me) and can confirm that background blur still works with Meet without WebGPU
- dragonelite 1y agoIt sounds like something webgl2 should be able to handle easily.
- surajrmal 1y agoOfficial documentation suggests meet works with Firefox: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473?hl=en#zippy=%2Cuse-a-supported-web-browser https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473?hl=en#zippy=%...
- mort96 1y agoYeah, Meet works in Firefox, but the background effects don't.
- CamouflagedKiwi 1y agoThe background effects do work, but they're using the CPU (and need a lot of it)
- mort96 1y agoHuh really? That must be a relatively recent change, last time I was in a Meet meeting in Firefox I was just blocked by a message saying my browser isn't supported. That is admittedly some time ago though.