Working in a Session
Once you've joined the Shared Space, you're a full participant. Here's what that looks like day to day.
Seeing other people
Everyone in the Shared Space is a peer — a person's device or an application. You can see who else is present, each shown with a display name so you know who is who. As people join, leave, or change what they're doing, the list updates, so you always have a live sense of who is in the space with you.
You don't have to do anything to appear to others; being in the session is enough. Your device carries its own identity, so people recognize you as the same participant each time you return.
Working with GUI panels
GUI panels are the flat screens floating in the Shared Space — dashboards, settings pages, web content, and control surfaces. You interact with them much as you would a touchscreen or a web page: point, click, hover, and scroll. Because panels are shared, what one person does on a panel is generally visible to everyone looking at it.
Some panels may be shown only to certain people. If a panel you expect isn't there, it may simply be restricted to another role, such as the operator.
Moving and scaling app volumes
App volumes — the boxes that applications draw into — can be repositioned and resized right in the Shared Space. On a headset or hand-tracking device, you reach out and grab a volume to move or rotate it, and pinch with two hands to scale it up or down. On a desktop visualizer, you do the same with the mouse.
To make a large model easier to discuss, grab it and shrink it onto a tabletop, or scale it up to walk through it. Everyone sees the change, so the whole group stays on the same page.
If someone else is already manipulating a volume, QAROS keeps you from fighting over it at the same instant — one person adjusts, everyone sees the result.
Leaving versus staying onboarded
There's an important difference between two things that feel similar:
| Action | What happens | Coming back |
|---|---|---|
| Leaving a session | You disconnect, but your device stays onboarded — its identity is remembered | Rejoin automatically, no code needed |
| Being forgotten (removed) | The operator wipes your device's remembered identity | You need a fresh pairing code to return |
In everyday use you just leave: close the app or step away. When you come back, your device reconnects and rejoins the same Shared Space as the same participant — you do not need a new pairing code. You only need a fresh code if your device was deliberately removed, or has never joined this Hub before.
For the one-time setup that gets each device in, see Onboarding Devices. To understand what the operator sees about the session — peers, invites, and status — see the Connection Panel.
If something looks wrong
If you can't see content, can't reach the Hub, or your device dropped, head to Troubleshooting.