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      Is SynergyXR available as a web-based application?

      Summarizing the reasons why SynergyXR is not available as a web application.

      At SynergyXR we aim to be available on all relevant hardware platforms. Multiple
      customers have requested support for web-based application allowing users to access
      SynergyXR through a web-browser. Unfortunately, there are several (technical) reasons
      why this is not currently possible:
      • We have core Unity engine dependencies that are not supported in their WebGL export. We would have to re-write large parts of the interaction to WebXR to circumvent this.
      • Multi-threaded execution is very unstable in the current implementation of Web Assemblies in Unity’s WebGL exporter. We would have to re-write our entire content-import pipeline along with several other components to make everything single-threaded, which would also result in worse performance.
      • Some third-party components we depend on does not support WebGL, e.g., our PDF viewer. So, we would have to develop and maintain these components ourselves.
      • Our current content caching system would have to be re-written.
      • We use .Net networking libraries for all authentication and web requests to the backend. This is not supported in WebGL, so would have to be re-written.
      In summary, it would require a major re-write of large parts of the code base, and likely
      result in reduced functionality. We are continuously monitoring progress/improvements
      from Unity, but currently it is not feasible to plan for such a re-write.