Is there a stand-alone "view in AR" button that I can use?

[Michaelfromgo]

Description

Is it possible to view my GLTF and USDZ file in AR from clicking a button. I do not want to have a background poster or object preview just a button.

[Michaelfromgo]

@cdata @elalish Do you know if its possible to do this?

[cdata]

@michaelmudukuti sorry for the delay, we are just getting back from holiday over here.

It is very much possible to do this, but we do not currently have an option to help you do it. We have discussed possibly creating a stand-alone button in #697 . If you would like to try making a button for yourself, I would refer you to the following code that does the majority of the work to launch various other AR viewers: https://github.com/GoogleWebComponents/model-viewer/blob/master/src/features/ar.ts

[Michaelfromgo]

Thank you for the response! The link you posted seems to be gone. Is there and updated link? @cdata

[cdata]

Yes, sorry, we just moved a bunch of things. The new link is: https://github.com/GoogleWebComponents/model-viewer/blob/master/packages/model-viewer/src/features/ar.ts

[allenwixted]

@michaelmudukuti did you have any success with this?

[leoncvlt]

As mentioned in #697, I built a quick implementation a component for such a stand-alone button: https://leoncvlt.github.io/ar-button/

[morandd]

This is perfect.
(And even more perfect will be when this is combined with model-viewer so we get the USDZ automatically generated.)

[elalish]

You can always just display: none the MV element and use activateAR().

[elalish]

Yes, and we've also made this easier in model-viewer; just set ar and reveal="manual" and the AR button will show up if available. You can make a custom AR button with the ar-button slot and you can size the model-viewer element to match.

[aahuba]

@leoncvlt Could you please help me with your button in my case? It doesn`t work for me

[leoncvlt]

@leoncvlt Could you please help me with your button in my case? It doesn`t work for me

Sure, do open an issue over in the repo.