Download and setup Meta Spatial Editor

Updated: Oct 28, 2025

Download the latest version of Spatial Editor on the Spatial SDK downloads page. By downloading, you agree to the Spatial Editor Terms.

Note: Spatial Editor is a spatial composition tool for Spatial SDK. It is not a standalone tool for creating Meta Horizon apps.

System requirements (Mac)

Minimum:

macOS 12.4 (Monterey)

Apple Silicon or Intel Core (2nd Gen)

8GB RAM

GPU with Metal 2.2

Recommended:

macOS 14 (Sonoma)

Apple Silicon

16GB RAM

GPU with Metal 2.2

System requirements (Windows)

Minimum:

Windows 10

4 cores with SSE4.2

8GB RAM

4 GB VRAM with OpenGL 4.6 (AMD GCN 4th gen, Nvidia GeForce 16 series, or Intel Rocket Lake).

Recommended:

Windows 11

8 cores

16GB RAM

8GB VRAM

Troubleshooting:

If you encounter the error: The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME.dll was not found, you can download the required Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package from here

Open your first Spatial Editor project

If you’re new to the Spatial SDK, follow these steps to open your first project in Spatial Editor:

Download the sample projects from the Meta-Spatial-SDK-Samples GitHub repo.

Navigate to Meta-Spatial-SDK-Samples/CustomComponentsSample/app/scenes.

Open the Main.metaspatial file to see the project in Spatial Editor.

Note: Most of the sample projects come with a Main.metaspatial file stored inside of app/scenes/.

Understand your project structure

The scenes directory in your Spatial SDK app should contain your entire Spatial Editor project. The following screenshot shows the CustomComponentsSample project opened in Android Studio: