Meta Quest Pro: How local multiplayer works

Video of how Quest Pro enables local multiplayer experiences using score clouds. The example: mixed reality table tennis.

The animated video shows two people standing at the ends of an oblong table playing table tennis. Both are wearing a Quest Pro, which transforms the conventional physical table and VR controllers into a table tennis table and table tennis bat and simulates the ball.

"Meta Quest Pro offers exciting mixed reality experiences when you and your friends are in the same place. To unlock these experiences, your headset generates clouds of points," the video explains.

Accordingly, the headsets capture the outline of a physical object based on distinctive visual features. This information is then shared and synchronised between the two devices.

Another interesting feature is that the point clouds are shared with other headsets via Meta servers. In order to protect one's own privacy, one can decide for oneself whether one wants to share point cloud data, according to Meta.

Local Multiplayer: Only for Meta Quest Pro?

The company announced at Meta Connect 2022 a new interface called Shared Spatial Anchors that allows developers to create local multiplayer experiences for Quest headsets.

It is unclear whether the video shows this interface or another technology for local multiplayer developed specifically for Meta Quest Pro.

One thing is certain, however: the technology enables exciting new usage scenarios, provided that there are several Quest headsets in a household or a company.

VR arcades are likely to benefit particularly strongly from the new possibilities, as multiplayer experiences would no longer require external sensors for the spatial synchronisation of the individual devices with each other. Meta itself demonstrated such an application about four years ago.

Source: Mixed / Youtube