*Chrome for Android 💻 will soon support HDR video playback 👍*

HDR is the next big thing in video, and it's slowly been expanding throughout various content platforms and devices as well. YouTube supports HDR uploads and a handful of phones (including the Pixels) support HDR playback.

Now, as spotted first by XDA-Developers, Chrome for Android appears to be adding support for HDR playback. Two recent commits to Chromium (1, 2) reveal that Google is working on giving Chrome the ability to extract HDR metadata and play it back on supported devices.

While the odds are that users won't get too much mileage out of HDR support in Chrome, the functionality is certainly handy to have.