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Beginner’s Guide · HxAR 2.0 preview
Your first HxAR journey.Start with one HexTile.
Sign in, record who recommended you if that applies, find and assign your first virtual HexTile, then visit the HxAR world at your own pace. This is the short, friendly route—not everything the app can do.
Development previewCheck the current release
This guide follows the HxAR 2.0 interface.
HxAR 2.0 is still in development. Labels, costs and availability can change. The current public App Store release is HxAR 1.2.
Step 01 · Sign in and create a profile
Begin with Apple, iCloud and your HxAR username.
On the HxAR entrance screen, check for iCloud connected, then choose the official Sign in with Apple button. HxAR uses Apple to identify the account without receiving your Apple password, while iCloud connects the profile and saved HxAR data to CloudKit.
- Choose a unique HxAR username.
- Add a display name or avatar only if you want to.
- Read and agree to the Terms & Conditions.
- Choose Create Profile, then Visit Dashboard.
Your starting screen
Meet the dashboard before opening your first tool.
The yellow Hexagon Vault and orange notifications sit at the upper left. Settings and Search sit at the upper right. The outer dial is the main route into HxAR features; rotate it, let it settle, then choose the destination you want.
Learn every dashboard controlYour starter route
Seven useful steps. No need to master everything.
Follow these in order for a simple first journey, or use the links to open a detailed How To guide whenever you want more explanation.
Open Hx Vault
Buy Hexagon Tokens only if you choose ownership.
From the dashboard, tap the yellow Hexagon Vault control and choose Open Hx Vault. The BUY TOKENS button opens Apple’s purchase sheet, where the displayed product and local price are the authoritative confirmation.
Buying is optional. You can explore the map, assign a tile and use private My Experience notes without buying Tokens. Tokens are needed only when an eligible, unowned HexTile requires them for renewable virtual ownership.
Hexagon Tokens and virtual HexTile ownership are in-app features—not cash, investments or physical land rights.
Hx Vault separates purchased Tokens from Ore and HxElectrum. The balances shown belong to a development account. Find a HexTile
Search the world or start from where you are.
On the dashboard’s bronze outer dial, rotate until Map is visible, let it settle and choose it. HxAR then offers two routes:
- Map Search
- Enter another place, address or valid coordinate to explore a location worldwide.
- Tracker View
- Allow When In Use location access for a current-location fix. It is not continuous journey tracking.
Choose TILES when available to reveal the local grid, then orient the map before selecting a HexTile. Stop moving before reading or using map controls.
Learn Map Search, Tracker View and HexTiles
The outlines form HxAR’s virtual coordinate layer; they are not surveyed physical-property boundaries. Select, review, then assign
Assignment saves a place. Ownership protects a choice.
Tap the intended HexTile, open Details or Options, read its location and ownership state, then choose Assign to My Properties. Assignment adds a personal Property Management record; it does not make you the owner.
Assign · no purchase required Own · optional purchase Protect the virtual tile
If HxAR’s live ownership check confirms the assigned tile is still unowned and you hold enough Hexagon Tokens for its category, BUY THIS TILE can purchase renewable one-year virtual ownership. It never grants physical access or land title.
You can assign a tile that somebody else owns, but you cannot buy it again. Other people can also privately assign or visit a virtually owned tile.
Select the virtual cell itself—not just a nearby map label. The demonstration address and coordinates are obscured. Return through Property Management
Manage the place, then visit when the route is available.
From the HxAR dashboard, rotate to Property Manager. It opens Property Management, where you can see the individual properties and groups you have assigned or own. Choose an entry to review its private organisation, ownership state and available property tools.
For an actively owned, eligible property, choose VISIT LOCATION. Not every assignment offers that action. During a Property Visit you can reveal nearby HexTiles, select them, assign eligible entries and buy an available tile if you decide ownership supports your plan.
In HxAR Metaverse, you can inspect the four base terrain colours and any of the twelve additional active colour types. An unowned tile can currently be changed by a signed-in user; active ownership restricts management to its owner. The additional colours and patterns work now; the behaviour associated with them may evolve.
A Property Visit can combine the HxAR terrain grid, avatar, Story content and a configured Drive Group. See the wider map idea
From individual HexTiles to a shared visual layer.
HxAR Maps explains how the 16 active colour choices can build a recognisable visual picture of an area over time. Each app HexTile corresponds to one logical Pixel Maps cell; its colour comes from red, green, blue and alpha channels—not four separate website pixels.
The current Central London Pixel Maps canvas is a read-only live colour viewer. Its protected app-to-website feed layers sparse explicit colour overrides saved to HxAR’s Production database over the shared London base pattern.
Pixel Maps is a separate website companion concept, not a fifth in-app map mode. Optional Live Multiplayer
See other opted-in members in supported HxAR spaces.
Open the blue dashboard gear, scroll in Settings to Live Play → Multiplayer and read the explanation. Live Multiplayer is off by default, and the preference is stored for that device. When the live service is available, confirm with Apple if you choose to turn it on.
While a supported Search Location or VR Building is open, other opted-in people in the same live space can see an avatar name and colour with short-lived virtual movement. HxAR uses a pseudonymous participant identifier that may remain stable across sessions; your private Apple account identifier is not shown to other players.
You can turn Live Multiplayer off in Settings at any time. Signing out also turns it off on that device. Live mode does not create a general movement history, grant real-world access or make every HxAR screen multiplayer.
This first Settings viewport does not show Multiplayer. Scroll down to the labelled Live Play section.
That is enough to start
Have fun first. Discover the depth when you are ready.
HxAR also includes Radar, Shared Stories, the AR Gallery, USDZ uploads, collectables, virtual buildings, spatial tools and games. Choose whatever sounds interesting next.