Is it possible to open scene viewer without showing the 3d model with model-viewer?

For some cases we would like to create a link to open directly scene viewer, so we would like to know if it is possible.

I noticed model-viewer component creates an anchor with a ‘intent’ command with some fallback parameters.

is it possible to hide the model-viewer component but keep the link to open the AR functionality directly?

I tried with an anchor with the href attribute set with the intent command but it is not working, i also tried by handling the event and using another anchor to trigger the .click() method but it didn’t work, does it have any restriction or something like that?

intent://subdomain.domain.com/file.glb? link=https://domain/ar-example/ar-example.html &title=3dmodel #Intent; scheme=http; package=com.google.ar.core; action=android.intent.action.VIEW; S.browser_fallback_url=https://domain/ar-example.html#model-viewer-no-ar-fallback; end

<a href="intent://subdomain.domain.com/file.glb?link=https://domain/ar-example.html&title=3dmodel#Intent;scheme=http;package=com.google.ar.core;action=android.intent.action.VIEW;S.browser_fallback_url=https://domain/ar-example.html#model-viewer-no-ar-fallback;end"> AR </a>

[tehfonsi]

You can find the full documentation here: https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/java/scene-viewer#ar-only

[cdata]

Sorry, your comment took me by surprise because I wrote the docs for that attribute 😉

It looks like the docs were accidentally reverted to an older version. I filed https://github.com/GoogleWebComponents/model-viewer/issues/549 to track this issue.

In the mean time, you can read the correct docs in the PR where reveal was added: #487