Browser Hub Demo

WebGPU API

WebGPU is the path from lightweight web previews to serious in-browser production tools: image effects, material previews, generative canvases, and 3D/editor workflows can move closer to native-app performance.

GPU-accelerated production

What this unlocks

Use the browser’s modern GPU pipeline for heavier visual computation, rendering, and media effects without installing native software. Available in modern Chromium-based browsers and expanding across platforms. Unsupported browsers should fall back to Canvas, WebGL, or server-side processing.

Use cases

Real product scenarios

These are the kinds of workflows where the API earns its complexity.

Accelerate image and video preview effects in Production Studio.

WebGPU API helps when the browser needs to move beyond plain navigation and forms.

Render richer material, lighting, and particle previews for World Studio.

WebGPU API helps when the browser needs to move beyond plain navigation and forms.

Run local visual analysis and shader experiments without uploading assets first.

WebGPU API helps when the browser needs to move beyond plain navigation and forms.

Shipping notes

Progressive enhancement rules

Browser capability work is product design work. Support levels, permissions, secure context requirements, and fallback behavior matter as much as the demo itself.

Always detect adapter and device availability before showing GPU workflows.

Available in modern Chromium-based browsers and expanding across platforms. Unsupported browsers should fall back to Canvas, WebGL, or server-side processing.

Keep workloads bounded, cancelable, and respectful of battery and thermals.

Available in modern Chromium-based browsers and expanding across platforms. Unsupported browsers should fall back to Canvas, WebGL, or server-side processing.

Provide Canvas or WebGL fallback paths for unsupported browsers.

Available in modern Chromium-based browsers and expanding across platforms. Unsupported browsers should fall back to Canvas, WebGL, or server-side processing.

More demos

Related browser capabilities

Continue through the hub to see how other modern APIs can reshape UX, device integration, and workflow design.

Spatial interfaces

WebGL 3D model rendering

Render an interactive 3D model in the browser instead of flattening everything into a static image.

Open WebGL 3D model rendering

Browser-native media

WebCodecs API

Access low-level browser video and audio encoding, decoding, and frame processing primitives without round-tripping every asset through a server.

Open WebCodecs API

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