XRCompositionLayer: mipLevels property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The read-only mipLevels property of the XRCompositionLayer interface is a layer's number of mip levels in the color and texture data. See also Mipmap on Wikipedia.

The desired number of mip levels can be specified when creating layers. However, if the user agent can't create the requested number, it can create less. Use mipLevels to determine the actual number of mip levels for a layer.

The viewPixelWidth and viewPixelHeight need to be powers of two as they get successively halved at each mip level.

Value

A number equal or smaller to the requested mip levels when a layer has been created.

Examples

Getting a layer's mip levels

The mipLevels property indicates the actual number of mip levels that have been created. In this example, the desired number of 5 mip levels that had been requested for an XRQuadLayer could be full-filled.

js
let xrGLBinding = new XRWebGLBinding(session, gl);
let quadLayer = xrGLBinding.createQuadLayer({
  space: refSpace,
  viewPixelHeight: 512,
  viewPixelWidth: 512,
  width: 1.0,
  height: 1.0,
  mipLevels: 5,
  transform: new XRRigidTransform({
    /* … */
  }),
});

quadLayer.mipLevels; // 5

Specifications

Specification
WebXR Layers API Level 1
# dom-xrcompositionlayer-miplevels

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
mipLevels
Experimental
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 147 (Release date: 2026-04-07)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 147 (Release date: 2026-04-10)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 131 (Release date: 2026-04-29)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 147 (Release date: 2026-04-07)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – No support
Samsung Internet
footnote No support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote No support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

See also