We are trying to run our self hosted project on the desktop but to no avail. Each time we try on desktop, we see a landing page with a qr code instead of the actual experience. We tried to run several example projects (as self hosted) that work nicely on desktop device in the 8th Wall editor but they all fail with the same error codes in the console:
> Viewport argument key "minimal-ui" not recognized and ignored.
> XR threw an exception
Error: No valid session manager to handle this session.
(anonymous function) — xr-simd-27.2.6.427.js:18:85212
e — xr-simd-27.2.6.427.js:1:5194
Is a self hosted project running on a desktop even possible in 8th Wall?
ps: the scenes we tried had the xrweb="allowedDevices: any;" option added.
Yes, you can enable metaversal deployment on self-hosted projects built with A-Frame or three.js. For example, the self-hosted version of the Manipulate Model sample project should launch on desktop:
Hey Evan, thank you for your reply.
However using this code as self hosted project keeps giving the errors posted above. If this is supposed to work on localhost/desktop then perhaps something else (server related?) is going wrong. I do hope you can provide some more pointers to make this work because debugging our app on a mobile device is a rather time consuming workflow.
Do you have any image targets added to the project in the 8th wall console by chance? If so, you’ll need to remove those (or make sure they are not auto-loaded) in order to enable metaversal deployment.
Indeed, the image targets prevented the viewing on desktop. Thanks so much for the hint!!
We’re now running into a css problem with our project where pressing the CTRL key brings up a context menu instead of allowing us to look around. But the reference project works ok so i’m sure we’ll sort this out. Thanks again!
