Shared Spatial Anchors and AR features

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Lucas Couto

• October 14, 2022 23:57

Hi folks, wanted to know if there are any plans for releasing Shared Spatial Anchors to allow users in the same space to get at the same scale and work together. I tried setting two anchors separately on different headsets and the system is off. The avatar is offset by a few meters from the user and the anchor is never perfectly aligned. And on that note it would be great if there was an extension of that to AR on the phone, so people in the same room that don’t have a headset can look at what others are doing.

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  Hilmar Gunnarsson

  • October 15, 2022 00:25
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  Hi Lucas Couto, thanks for the feedback! Yes, Shared Spatial Anchors are for sure on our roadmap, we believe co-located mixed reality experiences are very important.

  That being said, it should be possible to manually align the scene in two different headsets and lock the scene in place so that the avatars and users are aligned, although it's far from ideal to do that manually. It's also quite possible that doing that may not always work perfectly as we've focused on the single-user use case so far knowing that we'll soon implement Shared Anchors.

  FYI we put together a blog post about working in mixed reality that may be useful if you're exploring what's possible, see here: https://www.arkio.is/blog/2022-10-11-workinginmixedreality/

  Here's also a link to our help center article about passthrough which may be useful: https://support.arkio.is/hc/en-us/articles/7187427474205-Passthrough-mode

  Regarding co-located experiences using phones and tablets then that's on our list, but further away than Shared Anchors for Meta Quest for sure.

  Let us know how it goes with the anchors and mixed reality, it's always great to hear what people are doing with Arkio!

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