Use Cases

Gaming

Tabletop Games

Bring the game to life in your own home! By developing tabletop games that blend virtual and real-world elements, you can create an immersive experience that lets players interact with their surroundings in a whole new way.

Design Considerations

Before you start building your app, you should consider the overall design to improve user comfort and usability:

Eliminate real world constraints: Even when your experience is rooted in real, familiar experiences, you can let go of physical limitations and create magical experiences that are impossible in reality. Once your core mechanics are defined, free yourself from real world constraints.

Use the real environment as a canvas: In MR, you can use spaces and physical surfaces like walls, tables, and ceilings as your creative canvas. You can place virtual content and objects on these surfaces and make them persist like real objects. Virtual objects can also be made to interact with the environment.

Simplify gestures for common interactions: For many individuals, elaborate gestures like pinching, swiping with multiple fingers, or tapping in specific patterns can be frustratingly difficult. Simplifying these interactions can greatly enhance the overall user experience, making it more inclusive and user-friendly.

For more information, see Human Interface Guidelines:

Design foundations

Depth health and safety

App Examples

Tabletop

Step into a relaxing and joyful game hall, pick up the game pieces, and traverse multiple exciting parallel worlds for a tabletop game party!

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Demeo

Gather your friends and fight monsters in Demeo, the turn-based tabletop strategy game of battle and glory.

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Key Elements / Building Blocks

Multiplayer Building Blocks: This group of six building blocks enables you to quickly implement features that bring people together and cultivate social experiences through voice, presence, matchmaking, colocation, and more.