I have seen that before, but it gave me an Error:
Property ‘addEventListener’ does not exist on type ‘WebXRManager’.
Found a workaround for this:
let xr : any = this.renderer.xr
xr.addEventListener('sessionstart', this.onSessionStart.bind(this))
xr.addEventListener('sessionend', this.onSessionEnd.bind(this))
Probably happens because of missing typescript typings.
Thanks @Mugen87