Azure Spatial Anchors
An Azure service that is used to build immersive three-dimensional applications and experiences that map, persist, and restore content or points of interest at real-world scale.
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Diffrentiate anchors placed in similar object/place in real world using Azure spatial anchor in Unity
Hello there, So right now I am using Azure Spatial Anchors in Unity to place anchors at certain objects in a certain space. I have already used Anchor locate criteria, NearAnchor and NearDevice. This was tested using a ZEBRA TC57HO To replicate…
asked 2021-09-15T14:45:36.127+00:00
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João Barreto
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commented 2021-09-23T11:04:05.287+00:00
António Sérgio Azevedo
7,666
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Can't retrieve Azure Spatial Anchor (unity3D, Hololens 2)
About one year ago, I developed an application for Hololens 2 using Azure Spatial Anchors. This application can create, retrieve and delete anchors. It worked well. Today, I tried to use the application again. The anchor creation works but I can not…
asked 2021-08-26T08:01:41.773+00:00
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Olivier Martineau
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commented 2021-09-01T11:59:58.33+00:00
Olivier Martineau
1
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Can we use/test ASA SDK (Azure spatial anchor) on HoloLens 2 emulator on windows 10 machine
Can we use/test ASA SDK (Azure spatial anchor) on HoloLens 2 emulator on windows 10 machine I am trying ASA SDK 2.10.0. (Version 2.10.0-preview.1) using the unity editor version Unity 2020.3 (LTS) Please confirm the support for Hololense 2…
asked 2021-08-10T19:08:48.767+00:00
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Aniruddha Patil
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answered 2021-08-31T01:18:41.287+00:00
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QuantumCache
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Creating Spatial Anchors crashes application (iOS Swift)
When calling cloudSession!.createAnchor based on this document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/spatial-anchors/how-tos/create-locate-anchors-swift , my application crashes and the following logs appear. The error log is quite vague, if possible…
asked 2021-07-29T09:51:10.497+00:00
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Yu Yang Tan
106
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accepted 2021-08-09T12:51:14.597+00:00
Yu Yang Tan
106
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Tracked plane overlap one another after detection
When I am start detecting the azure plane some times detected azure plane may cover the other tracked azure plane. Like When I'm start tracking the azure plane it will detected a single plane but when any object comes in front of tracking the single…
asked 2021-06-25T09:52:36.553+00:00
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Ajinkya Aher
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commented 2021-08-04T09:09:53.357+00:00
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Nikhil Khode
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Looking for information on the quality of an Anchors in creation (ReadyForCreateProgress and RecommendedForCreateProgress in Microsoft.Azure.SpatialAnchors.SessionStatus)
This is a cross post from Github azure-spatial-anchors-samples Description I would like to have a better understanding of the values ReadyForCreateProgress and RecommendedForCreateProgress from Microsoft.Azure.SpatialAnchors.SessionStatus. From what I've…
asked 2021-06-30T14:19:09.1+00:00
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Markus Wellmann
26
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accepted 2021-07-20T07:56:13.757+00:00
Markus Wellmann
26
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Are there any limitations to using Azure Spatial Anchors with a Hololens 1 vs a Hololens 2?
I will be using ASA for a project and readily have access to a Hololens 1. Are there any features that do not work with certain Hololens' versions? As if needed, I could attempt to gain access to a Hololens 2. There are also a few Microsoft tutorials…
asked 2021-05-27T06:37:02.63+00:00
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Fraser, Sarah
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commented 2021-06-04T14:58:48.387+00:00
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AshokPeddakotla-MSFT
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How can i create a spatial anchor which links to a iot device ?
Hi i want to create a simple spatial anchor app which can display real time iot data. I would appreciate if you could guide me on how i can do it. A tutorial would be great. Is a iot hub registered device (raspberry pi) together with a spatial anchor…
asked 2021-05-26T05:23:53.26+00:00
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Rajitha Nakandala
21
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commented 2021-06-02T16:45:26.883+00:00
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Duc Pham
11
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Hololens2 & Android Java app creates cloud anchor but its not reflected in azure portal
Hi I did the tutorials for creating Spatial Anchor App using both Unity for Hololens 2 and Android Studio for android app, both of them compiled and deployed successfully to the devices as indicated on the tutorials but once i created or delete…
asked 2021-04-13T15:04:43.59+00:00
Rajitha Nakandala
21
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accepted 2021-05-26T05:18:18.34+00:00
Rajitha Nakandala
21
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Create Azure Spatial Anchors
How can you programmatically create azure spatial anchor given a JSON file with GPS coordinates and attribute information.
asked 2021-03-01T07:25:29.777+00:00
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Eric Hermoso
21
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answered 2021-05-21T08:07:38.673+00:00
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Ava Thalheim
6
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Need a example/example for way finding navigation of anchors placed
I have refered this link for example : https://github.com/Azure/azure-spatial-anchors-samples My requirement : Please see the below video from specified time for way finding example. Video example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVmfP8TaqNU watch…
asked 2021-03-23T14:13:44.967+00:00
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Darshan Patel
6
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answered 2021-04-13T21:23:36.403+00:00
QuantumCache
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Hololens2 app creates cloud anchor but its not reflected in azure portal
I'm triying to make an app for hololens2 (HL2) and android where you create an anchor in HL2 and can ve visible in android AR. Developing in Unreal engine 4.26 The problem is that it seems to work in HL2, I can create an achor, close the app, close…
asked 2021-02-26T11:15:53.21+00:00
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Profi Làctic
1
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commented 2021-03-17T23:30:45.407+00:00
António Sérgio Azevedo
7,666
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Spatial Anchors: Service unavailable or unspecified error found when trying to load an anchor
I'm developing an iOS/Android app using Unity that uses spatial anchors. The current build of the app worked fine last week but as of today, it is unable to find anchors. When I try to find a spatial anchor, I get the error message "Service…
asked 2021-03-01T11:26:05.72+00:00
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Felix Gähr
31
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commented 2021-03-03T03:20:05.943+00:00
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OttoMejia
6
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Asure Spatial Anchor app crash on HoloLens 2 following the tutorial
Hello, I have followed the tutorial on the Microsoft website: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/develop/unity/tutorials/mr-learning-asa-02. I can run the sample application on Github in my HoloLens 2 device properly. However,…
asked 2021-02-23T04:28:08.603+00:00
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Henry Guo
36
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commented 2021-02-26T02:27:22.867+00:00
António Sérgio Azevedo
7,666
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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Unable to select no sql db other than cosmos db using Azure spatial anchor
here i am trying to select any other no sql db other than cosmos db but i didnt found any documentation and how can i add the metadata along with anchor id ?
asked 2021-02-08T17:04:50.76+00:00
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Phanindra K
1
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answered 2021-02-10T21:40:46.507+00:00
QuantumCache
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Upload .SHP file to SQL Server?
I have .shp files that I want to upload to SQL Server I am trying to find an easy solution to uploading .shp file to SQL Server 2018. I tried OGR2OGR and I get an error. Below is my OGR2OGR command and then the error. ogr2ogr -progress -f…
asked 2021-02-09T04:15:08.557+00:00
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RXR
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answered 2021-02-09T06:43:31.877+00:00
Olaf Helper
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Privatization deployment Mixed reality spatial anchor
I am currently using mixed reality spatial anchors, but I found that the speed of generating anchors is very slow. I suspect it has something to do with the location of the server. Can I privatize the deployment of spatial anchors on my own server?
asked 2021-01-19T01:19:23.027+00:00
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杨 明进
6
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answered 2021-01-26T16:47:57.73+00:00
Patrick Misteli
91
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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new Azure Spatial Anchors 2.7.0 SDK fails to upload cloud anchor in iOS 14.2
I've been using the old 2.2.1 SDK for a while until yesterday when I updated my iPhone 11 Pro to iOS 14.2 and upgraded to 2.7.0 SDK. Calling Cloud Anchor Upload sometimes works, other times it just timeout without giving any sort of error response. I…
asked 2020-11-14T17:57:06.403+00:00
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Mokin
1
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answered 2021-01-09T02:28:33.653+00:00
AshokPeddakotla-MSFT
30,076
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Error if I move the anchor before saving it
Hi, I'm trying to create an Azure spatial anchor with Android, ARCore and Sceneform. I tried to make the transformableNode of the anchor with his translationController enabled, but if I move the anchor and then I scan the environment, at the end it…
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hololens 2 set up
Hello, I am currently setting up the Hololens 2. I am at the step were you need to choose who owns the Hololens, as my workplace owns it this is going to be my only option. My question is; Does the email used for this step gets bound to this…
asked 2020-09-25T15:31:01.76+00:00
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Franccesco Carrion
6
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answered 2020-09-28T03:31:50.663+00:00
AshokPeddakotla-MSFT
30,076
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