Free-Roam VR Multiuser Experiences

One of the biggest challenges in the modern virtual reality landscape is creating easily accessible, intuitive, and ultimately entertaining immersive experiences that customers can experience together with family and friends. Businesses that work to solve the challenge have been finding high degrees of success. They build free-roam VR multiuser experiences that use large-scale established play spaces designated to run specific virtual reality experiences within them. Customers can gather and experience the world of virtual reality together, in the same virtual space simultaneously.

Free-roam VR multiuser experiences: What they are and how they work

VR enthusiasts commonly still encounter several obstacles that prevent them from easily playing many multiuser-style virtual realities experiences together. Many people still face multiple challenges such as network conditions, platform incompatibilities, play space limitations, device tethering, etc., that still exist for many people. Businesses have seen excellent success in creating established VR spaces built to solve these challenges.

Virtual reality industry leaders have discovered that VR functions best as an accessible and socially focused entertainment medium. VR enthusiasts remain eager to see more free-roam VR multiuser experiences made available to them. Businesses that have found success operating in this space have ensured that their business has robust networking infrastructure, ample open spaces for customers to play in, proper lighting conditions, and fully equipped VR devices. Thus customers can achieve an experience as seamless and immersive as possible.

Designing and developing free-roam VR multiuser experiences

What resources does the Windows Mixed Reality platform have to assist with designing and developing free-roam VR multiuser experiences?

The Mixed Reality Docs hub contains several pages covering different components of the design and development process for building immersive free-roam VR multiuser experiences. Visit the Design and development FAQ to learn more.

What resources does the Windows Mixed Reality platform have to assist with building immersive experiences that are capable of hosting multiple users in one session?

The Mixed Reality Docs hub contains several pages covering the information needed for building immersive experiences capable of hosting multiple users at once. Visit the Multiuser FAQ to learn more.

Setting up, deploying, and managing immersive free-roam VR multiuser experiences.

What solutions does the Windows Mixed Reality platform have to assist with configuring virtual play spaces for immersive free-roam VR multiuser experiences?

Many VR experiences require setting up a play space to use them safely. Play spaces are designated real-world spaces that have been cleared of obstacles and deemed safe to use VR in, corresponding to the player’s location in virtual space to prevent them from colliding with anything in the real world. For guidance on setting up simple room boundaries up to 5mx5m, see the set up your room boundary documentation. For guidance on setting up larger and more complex play spaces by utilizing the Spatial Anchors capability in the Windows Holographic API stack, visit the coordinate systems documentation.

How can the Windows Mixed Reality platform and Azure Cloud Services assist with managing and deploying immersive free-roam VR multiuser experiences?

Azure-based onsite and remote management can help your business scale your immersive free-roam VR multiuser experiences. Visit the Cloud Services & Azure FAQ to learn more.

Using licensed SteamVR free-roam VR multiuser experiences

What solutions does the Windows Mixed Reality platform provide for accessing licensed free-roam VR multiuser experiences on SteamVR?

Note

This feature requires installations of Steam, SteamVR, and Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR.

The Windows Mixed Reality platform is fully compatible with SteamVR via the Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR software. Learn more by visiting the Using SteamVR with Windows Mixed Reality page.

See also

Refer to the enterprise and location-based entertainment support FAQ for troubleshooting and support.