Hi,
we've developed an app for Vision Pro that utilises the GroupActivitites SDK to provide shared experiences for our users.
Remote Participation works great, but we can't get nearby sharing to work.
The behaviour we're observing:
User 1 engages share sheet from Volume, 2nd Vision Pro is visible.
User 1 starts nearby sharing
Session initialisation runs for approx. 30 seconds, then fails
Sometimes, the nearby participant doesn't show up at all after the initialisation has failed once.
As stated in the Configure your visionOS app for sharing with people nearby article, we didn't make any changes to our implementation to support nearby sharing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
David
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Hello,
I am currently considering developing a Full Space app that enables a shared visionOS experience with nearby users.
Intended Features
A Mixed Full Space app in which dozens of 3D models are placed in the space.
These 3D models may play embedded animations when tapped, be programmatically moved or rotated, or be controlled via Reality Composer Pro timelines.
The app also includes audio, spatial audio, videos with audio, and videos without audio, which are rendered as VideoTextures on planes and played back in the space.
Some media elements play automatically, while others are triggered by user interaction.
However, it is unclear whether AVPlaybackCoordinator supports shared playback across multiple types of media, such as:
audio only
spatial audio
video without audio
video with audio
I am also unsure whether there are alternative or recommended approaches for synchronizing playback in this scenario.
Questions
Is it technically possible to implement the experience described above using visionOS?
Are there any important implementation considerations or limitations that should be taken into account?
For example, when two participants experience the app simultaneously, how is the content positioned for each participant?
Is the spatial placement of content shared across participants, or is it positioned relative to each participant’s viewpoint?
For nearby participants, is it necessary to register a spatial Persona? My understanding is that spatial Personas are not visible for nearby users during the experience; is this correct?
When experiencing SharePlay with nearby users, is it possible to share the experience without registering the other participant’s contact information?
I have watched the following session, but I was unable to fully understand the feasibility of the above use case or the concrete implementation details:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/318/
Thank you.
Hello,
I am in the process of implementing SharePlay support in my visionOS app. Everything runs fine when I test locally, but when my app is distributed via TestFlight, calling try await activity.activate() shows the SharePlay dialog as usual, but then when I start a new FaceTime call, my ImmersiveSpace gets dismissed.
This is only happening when the app is distributed via TestFlight, when I run it locally the ImmersiveSpace stays active as expected.
Looking at the console on my Mac I found this log:
Invalid initial client settings class: UIApplicationSceneClientSettings; expected class: MRUISharedApplicationSceneClientSettings; bundle ID: com.apple.facetime; scene ID: com.apple.facetime:SFBSystemService-DDA8C751-C0C4-487E-AD85-59EF4E6C6050
Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this? It's driving me nuts and I wasted over a day looking for a workaround but so far been unsuccessful.
Thanks!
Hi,
I am in the process of implementing SharePlay into our app. The shared experience opens an Immersive Space and we set systemCoordinator.configuration.supportsGroupImmersiveSpace = true
Now visionOS establishes a shared coordinate space for the immersive space.
From the docs:
To achieve consistent positioning of RealityKit entities across multiple devices in an immersive space during a SharePlay session
There are cases where we want to position content in front of the user (independent of the shared session, and for each user individually). Normally to do that we use the transform retrieved via worldTrackingProvider.queryDeviceAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform
to position content in front of the user (plus some Z Offset and smooth interpolation).
This works fine in non-SharePlay instances and the device transform is where I would expect it to be but during the FaceTime call deviceAnchor.originFromAnchorTransform seems to use the shared origin of the immersive space and then I end up with a transform that might be offset.
Here is a video of the issue in action: https://streamable.com/205r2p
The blue rect is place using AnchorEntity(.head, trackingMode: .continuous). This works regardless of the call and the entity is always placed based on the head position.
The green rect is adjusted on every frame using the transform I get from worldTrackingProvider.queryDeviceAnchor. As you can see it's offset.
Is there any way I can query query this transform locally for the user during a FaceTime call?
Also I would like to know if it's possible to disable this automatic entity transform syncing behavior?
Setting entity.synchronization = nil results in the entity not showing up at all.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/realitykit/synchronizationcomponent
Is SynchronizationComponent only relevant for the legacy MultiPeerConnectivity approach?
Thank you!
Hi everyone,
I’m building a visualization app for VisionPro that uses SharePlay and GroupActivities to explore datasets collaboratively.
I’ve successfully implemented the new SharedWorldAnchor feature, and everything works well with nearby, local participants.
However, I’m stuck on one point:
How can I share a world anchor with remote participants who join via FaceTime as spatial personas?
Apple’s demo app (where multiple users move a plane model around) seems to suggest that this is possible.
For context, I’m building an immersive app with Metal rendering.
Any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Jens
Hello,
For GuessTogether source code, it seems like the code assumes that you're already in a FaceTime call before pressing the custom SharePlay button (labeled "Play Guess Together"). If not already on a FaceTime call, my Apple Vision Pro and the visionOS simulator both do nothing after throwing warnings. Is this intended behavior?
If so, how do I make it so that pressing the button can also initiate FaceTime calls? Is this allowed?
Thank you!
When building a multiplayer Tabletop game, the documentation includes how to attach a custom TabletopNetworkSessionCoordinator, which could be used in addition to TabletopGame.MultiplayerDelegate. But so far, we have been unable to create these types of custom coordinators or have a delegate that works.
Our current setup with our generic GroupActivity works by sending the session to TabletopGame's coordinateWithSession method (like in the current sample project), but we didn't find a way to access and control, for example, the arbiter, seats, player events, among other features mentioned on https://developer.apple.com/documentation/tabletopkit/tabletopnetworksession.
Is correct to expect having access to the participants, messenger, or journal without having to maintain a parallel coordinator?
possibly we are missing something here; any suggestions?