SOLVED: How can I get PlayCanvas WebVR to work on an iPhone?

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Hi all,

I’m trying to get a Web VR project to work on the iPhone. First of all, I’m assuming I can do this as it prompts for Cardboard?

But when it’s running, I can’t get the camera to track the phone movement. It just faces upwards. Please have a go yourselves here: http://playcanv.as/p/lUPF32BA/

I’ve created the project using the PlayCanvas WebVR base. The camera is all set up for VR with enableonclick and alwaysAcceptInput checked.

It’s driving me a little bit mental, so if anyone can help that would be great. I expect I’m missing something really obvious!

P.S. I’ve tested this in Chrome and Safari and also as a link from Facebook in the FB browser. None of them work.

Thank you.

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Currently, iOS doesn’t work for the regular publish links in for VR (because we’re using an iframe with a different origin on the published pages)

Can you try testing with the “embed” link here: http://playcanv.as/e/p/lUPF32BA/ which does a redirect to the source of the iframe? Hopefully that should work.

We have a fix for this ready to deploy, but it is a (minor) breaking change and there is a bit of work preparing for it. Hopefully it will be out next week and regular publish links will work on iOS as well.

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Thank you. That worked! That’s a great help. So I just need to add that extra /e into the URL?