1.
Dragons in a
Mixed Reality World

2.
Anna
Melashkina
Software
Developer
medialesson
Philipp
Bauknecht
Founder
& CEO
medialesson
@GrillPhil

3.
Who has tried HoloLens?
Who has worked with
Azure Spatial Anchors? Any Dragon Tamers?

4.
Mixed Reality & HoloLens
AR Anchors & Azure Spatial Anchors
Tooling
Demo & Code!
Tips & Tricks
Usage Scenarios
QnA

5.
DIGITAL WORLDPHYSICAL WORLD
MIXED REALITY SPECTRUM
VIRTUAL REALITY
Blending the physical and digital world
AUGMENTED REALITY

6.
2x Field of View
Hand Tracking
Eye Tracking
850 Snapdragon
Kinect Sensing
All new HPU
Remote Rendering
World Anchors
Windows Hello

7.
What is a Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference to place
digital content in the same physical location
where it stays stable at the same position
and orientation relative to the real-world
environment.
y
xz

8.
What is a Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference to place
digital content in the same physical location
where it stays stable at the same position
and orientation relative to the real-world
environment.
y
xz

9.
What is a Cloud Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference for enabling
multiple users to place digital content in the
same physical location where it is persisted
and can be seen on different devices at the
same position and orientation relative to
the real-world environment.
y
xz

10.
What is a Cloud Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference for enabling
multiple users to place digital content in the
same physical location where it is persisted
and can be seen on different devices at the
same position and orientation relative to
the real-world environment.
y
xz

11.
What is a Cloud Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference for enabling
multiple users to place digital content in the
same physical location where it is persisted
and can be seen on different devices at the
same position and orientation relative to
the real-world environment.
y
xz
Azure Spatial Anchors

12.
What is a Cloud Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference for enabling
multiple users to place digital content in the
same physical location where it is persisted
and can be seen on different devices at the
same position and orientation relative to
the real-world environment.
y
xz
Azure Spatial Anchors

13.
What is a Cloud Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference for enabling
multiple users to place digital content in the
same physical location where it is persisted
and can be seen on different devices at the
same position and orientation relative to
the real-world environment.
y
xz
Azure Spatial Anchors

14.
What is a Cloud Spatial Anchor?
A common frame of reference for enabling
multiple users to place digital content in the
same physical location where it is persisted
and can be seen on different devices at the
same position and orientation relative to
the real-world environment.
y
xz
Azure Spatial Anchors

15.
HoloLens Android
ARCore
iOS
ARKit
Where can I use Spatial Anchors?
Azure Spatial Anchor Service
C++/WinRT Java/C++/NDK
Xamarin
Objective-C/Swift
Unity

16.
Dragons in a Mixed Reality World…

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• Create Spatial Anchor resource in Azure portal
• Save AccountId and AccountKey
• Create Unity project with XR enabled
• Install Windows Mixed Reality package
• Hololens and Android/ iOS device, that supports ARCore/ARKit
https://developers.google.com/ar/discover/supported-devices
What we need

18.
Demo

19.
• More than 1 Watcher
• Delete all anchors at once
• Delete by id
• Update already created anchor
• More accuracy
Possibilities for further work

20.
Placing anchors

21.
Finding anchors

22.
Persistent multi-user virtual content

23.
Collaborative design reviews
Persistent multi-user virtual content

24.
Collaborative design reviews
Real-time IoT digital twin data
on actual equipment
Persistent multi-user virtual content

25.
Wayfinding

26.
Empowering firstline workers to
navigate large facilities
Wayfinding

27.
Empowering firstline workers to
navigate large facilities
Guiding the way to IoT sensors
or failing equipment
Wayfinding

28.
Resources
Samples https://aka.ms/asa-samples
Documentation https://aka.ms/asa-docs
Stack Overflow https://aka.ms/asa-stackoverflow
UserVoice https://aka.ms/asa-uservoice
Feedback azuremrs@microsoft.com
Hololens https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens
SLAM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping
Dragon model https://free3d.com/ru/3d-model/black-dragon-rigged-and-game-ready-
92023.html
Code base https://github.com/aosyatnik/SpatialAnchorsDragonsMeetup

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Questions?

30.
Thank you!