XRProjectionLayer: ignoreDepthValues 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 ignoreDepthValues property of the XRProjectionLayer interface is a boolean indicating if the XR compositor is not making use of depth buffer values when rendering the layer.

Value

A boolean. true indicates the XR compositor doesn't make use of depth buffer values; false indicates the content of the depth buffer will be used when rendering the layer.

Examples

Ignoring depth values

If the depthFormat option is 0 when creating a projection layer, the ignoreDepthValues property will be true. See also XRWebGLBinding.createProjectionLayer().

js
let glProjectionLayer = xrGLBinding.createProjectionLayer({
  depthFormat: 0,
});

glProjectionLayer.ignoreDepthValues; // true

Specifications

Specification
WebXR Layers API Level 1
# dom-xrprojectionlayer-ignoredepthvalues

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
ignoreDepthValues
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