Shared Spaces

[guzhogi]

Just thinking, how would we create shared spaces/apps for the Vision Pro? Could someone create a multiplayer game for them, and each player would be able to see all the other players in the game?

This could be useful for things like architectural design apps so that multiple people can see it at once, make comments, and see if a particular room/space is big enough for multiple people.

 

[tragicwinding]

Creating shared spaces and multiplayer games for the Apple Vision Pro is definitely an interesting idea. Real-time shared experiences, like multiplayer games or collaborative architecture design, would indeed require a system that can handle multiple users in the same space. This typically involves some form of networking or cloud syncing for data sharing.
I haven't heard about anyone doing anything like that for the Apple Vision Pro, tho.
You can also explore similar concepts on other platforms, such as ARKit for iOS, which supports shared AR experiences, to get an idea of how such features might be implemented.

 

[fwmireault]

I definitely think this is something Apple will want to implement at some point, but I don’t think it will be part of VisionOS 1.0. Notably because at this price, the chances of having more than one Vision Pro in a single household is very unlikely for the time being. So there is no rush, but I’m sure some kind of multiplayer/shared functionalities will be deployed as the product gets cheaper and more mainstream

 

[guzhogi]

I definitely think this is something Apple will want to implement at some point, but I don’t think it will be part of VisionOS 1.0. Notably because at this price, the chances of having more than one Vision Pro in a single household is very unlikely for the time being. So there is no rush, but I’m sure some kind of multiplayer/shared functionalities will be deployed as the product gets cheaper and more mainstream

True for gaming. However, I could see something like architectural firms being able to afford multiple, like how some film studios would have multiple $10,000+ workstations.

 

[TLewis]

Apple is working on it, as the presentation mentioned possible collaborative 3D designing for work.

For games, Apple would need to provide APIs for real-time 3D modeling of objects and figures (Apple probably already has this). For PCs and Macs/iPads, we already have 3D models rendered to a 2D perspective in real-time (WoW and Guild Wars 2 are examples), and so it shouldn't be difficult for the Vision Pro. Control interfaces could be virtual (see the virtual keyboard and the virtual DJ in the presentation), or maybe an actual keyboard could be used. MMOs could be a blast on this.