Azure Spatial Anchors

2019: Announcement

On February 24, 2019 Microsoft provided new cloud services of Azure which will help developers to create cross-platform applications with support of augmented reality.

Azure Spatial Anchors. This service allows  to create holograms which remain in a certain physical space. At once several people using HoloLens headsets, phones or tablets on  operating systems iOS and Android will be able to get afterwards access to them.

For example, two persons can begin a game in chess in the mixed reality, having placed a virtual chessboard on a table. Then, having directed the device to a table, they can browse and interact with a digital chessboard together. One of players can use for the game iPhone, and another — the device based on Android.

Azure Remote Rendering. This service, according to in Microsoft,  helps to save high quality and the detail level 3D - content. Thanks to integration with Azure cloud this service will help to display high-quality  3D models on different devices without the need for their simplification and to save each their part. 

Microsoft provided cloud services for creating applications of augmented reality

Because of hardware constraints on devices users cannot execute drawing of a high-quality 3D model on the smartphone or the AR headset. Instead rendering can be executed a cloud of Azure Remote Rendering and to transfer model with full save of parts to different devices in real time.

By February 25, 2019 Azure Spatial Anchors is available to everyone in the form of the preliminary version. Only the limited circle of the users who received the special invitation can use Azure Remote Rendering service. Terms of start of full-function versions of products in Microsoft are not called.^[1]

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