Meta Portal SDK Expands For Hybrid Work: Spatial Whiteboards and Shared Media Controls

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The spatial whiteboard API enables live, multi-user drawing with stroke ownership, selective visibility layers, and persistence across sessions. It integrates with presence signals so teams can attach audio and pin annotations to participant avatars.

Shared media controls allow synchronized playback of video and audio across connected Portal devices and companion mobile apps, with latency compensation features and per-user volume mapping. Developers can hook into these controls to build collaborative training tools and synchronized demos.

Meta pitched these updates to enterprises adopting hybrid meeting setups, noting the emphasis on low-latency synchronization and privacy controls for meeting artifacts. The Portal SDK includes analytics to measure engagement with spatial whiteboard content.