Comment by mort96
9 days 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.
Official documentation suggests meet works with Firefox: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/7317473?hl=en#zippy=%...
Yeah, Meet works in Firefox, but the background effects don't.
The background effects do work, but they're using the CPU (and need a lot of it)
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I'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
It sounds like something webgl2 should be able to handle easily.