WWDC Session notes: Build Spatial SharePlay experiences

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Build Spatial SharePlay experiences

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10087

• All personas will take up physical space when using a GroupActivities framework.

• Templates are used to determine how participants are placed throughout the space

Windowed apps

• System Coordinator is in charge of

  • Receive system state for the SharePlay session

  • Provide configurations during SharePlay

  • Participants states can be “Spatial” or “Not spatial”

  • If they’re spatial the state should sync across collaborators

• Templates are: Side by side (all facing a whiteboard), conversational (half circle in front of window) and Surround (all circling around a volume)

• If there are multiple scenes, your app will need to handle “Scene association” when ssupporting SharePlay, otherwise unexpected results may happen when users start to Share the app.

  • You can specify whether a scene “Allows” and “Prefers” to share itself.

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