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Can do anything, but has a reputation for being tricky to get working the way you want it.

Supports multiple instances of a room configuration. Room system not updated to latest version.

### [Hubs](https://hubsfoundation.org/)

A complete shared virtual world implementation, with good support for personal computer and mobile users.
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However, adding A-Frame components requires running your own synchronization server or using Hubs Cloud, to serve a custom client.
Uses forked versions of A-Frame and NAF, so compatibility with 3rd-party components is far from guaranteed.

Supports multiple instances of a room configuration.

### [A-Frame Croquet Component](https://github.com/NikolaySuslov/aframe-croquet-component)

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It's super-easy to [throw together a multi-user experience](https://github.com/NikolaySuslov/aframe-croquet-component#how-to-share-an-entity-in-an-a-frame-scene-with-other-users) (without voice chat), but as an immature library, you might have to code and submit a PR to get advanced capabilities.

Supports multiple instances of a room configuration.

## Comparison Table

| | aframe-croquet-component | networked-aframe | Hubs w/ custom client |
|----------------------------|--------------------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| server setup | none | easy | hard |
| | aframe-croquet-component | networked-aframe | Hubs w/ custom client |
|----------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| server setup | none | easy | hard |
| maintained | yes | yes for core and janus adapter, easyrtc adapter has long standing issues | yes |
| A-Frame versions | 1.3.0 - 1.6.0 | 1.4.1 | forked, primitives removed, planned to be completely removed |
| code maturity | immature | mature for core and janus adapter | mature |
| synced attributes | all | by schema | by schema |
| object mutation & deletion | anyone | owner | owner |
| private sessions | automatic | manual, add auth to the easyrtc server and JWT for janus | automatic |
| voice chat | no | yes | yes |
| user avatar selection | no | no | yes |
| custom network messages | yes | yes | yes |
| state preserved w/o users | yes | no | no, but you can pin objects to keep them |
| synced random seeds | yes | no | no? |
| example | https://xalot.surge.sh/ | https://naf-examples.glitch.me/ | |
| A-Frame versions | 1.3.0 - 1.6.0 | 1.4.1 | forked, primitives removed, planned to be completely removed |
| code maturity | immature | mature for core and janus adapter | mature |
| instanced rooms | yes | yes, but not updated to latest | yes |
| synced attributes | all | by schema | by schema |
| object mutation & deletion | anyone | owner | owner |
| private sessions | automatic | manual, add auth to the easyrtc server and JWT for janus | automatic |
| voice chat | no | yes | yes |
| user avatar selection | no | no | yes |
| custom network messages | yes | yes | yes |
| state preserved w/o users | yes | no | no, but you can pin objects to keep them |
| synced random seeds | yes | no | no? |
| example | https://xalot.surge.sh/ | https://naf-examples.glitch.me/ | |

* synced random seeds: these are commonly used to procedurally generate the same world on each client.

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