Use Azure Spatial Anchors to anchor objects in the real world

Beginner
Developer
Windows
Windows Mixed Reality
Mixed Reality Toolkit
HoloLens
Azure
Mixed Reality Toolkit
Azure Spatial Anchors

This course explores the use of Azure Spatial Anchors by integrating it into a HoloLens 2 application.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you'll be able to:

  • Describe the fundamentals of Azure Spatial Anchors.
  • Start and stop an Azure Spatial Anchors session, along with creating, uploading, and downloading spatial anchors on a single device.

Prerequisites

  • A Windows 10 or 11 PC configured with the correct tools
  • Windows 10 SDK 10.0.18362.0 or later
  • A HoloLens 2 device configured for development
  • Unity Hub with Unity 2021.3 or later installed and the Universal Windows Platform Build Support module added
  • A mixed reality project set up in Unity
  • Basic familiarity with Unity: interface, scene creation, package import, and addition of GameObjects to a scene
  • Completion of the Create a Spatial Anchors resource section of the tutorial about creating a Unity HoloLens app that uses Azure Spatial Anchors