Azure Spatial Anchors

Microsoft's Spatial Anchors, on Azure, is enabled on:

Persist and Share 3D Content

Accelerate mixed reality app development by eliminating the difficult task of creating and restoring persistent, accurate digital anchors

Operate at Real-world Scale

Spatial Anchors has a proven ability to operate at global scale persisting and restoring millions of 3D objects

With the Security and Reliability of Azure

Ensure that 3D content is rendering safely and reliably by leveraging Azure, the world’s computer

Contextually integrate IoT data

Connect the digital business data to real-world workflows in facility management, manufacturing, and retail. Put real-time data at the fingertips of your employees, enabling them to make better, faster, and more informed decisions.

Create massive multiplayer games in the real world

Bring the best of mobile gaming and mixed reality together. Spatial Anchors enables players to find nearby content, share and play mixed reality experiences in a real-world location, and persist games and puzzles for discovery on later days, weeks or months. Build experiences such as Minecraft Earth, holographic scavenger hunts, or digital escape room puzzles.

Enable collaborative experiences across platforms

Share mixed reality content on all the devices that work best for a solution, for scenarios like training and design review. Spatial Anchors supports HoloLens devices, ARKit-enabled iOS devices, and ARCore-enabled Android devices. Build apps using Unity or any preferred native SDK for the devices to support.