Colocation Overview

Colocation is the concept of multiple users being in the same physical space but can interact with the same virtual objects in the physical space. Colocated apps generally enable the following use cases:

To enable a colocated experience using Meta’s SDKs generally requires 2 Major Steps

Group formation enables quest users to discover and advertise data to each other. Colocation Discovery is part of the Meta XR Core SDK that allows quest users to find each other and enable group formation.

Anchor Sharing/Loading enables quest users to share a point of reference (i.e. an anchor) so that each users coordinate frames are aligned. There are two types of Anchors that can be shared

1) Spatial Anchors - Anchors that can be created as an arbitrary point in the physical world. For colocation, spatial anchors are used when your app does not need awareness of the physical environment (i.e. walls, floor, ceiling, couch, etc.)

2) Scene Anchors - Anchors that are created from the physical environment (i.e. walls, floor, ceiling, couch etc.) by running Space Setup. For colocation, scene anchors are used when your app needs awareness of the physical environment.