Microsoft HoloLens Developer???s Guide

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Our apps live in the real world. This means we can take advantage of the physical structures around us in our app. Imagine we are writing a game where we have to follow a character around the living room. At the time of writing this game, we have no idea what the user's living room looks like. We can safely assume there are walls, a floor, and a ceiling, but that is about it. So, we must use the spatial mapping feature to detect these structures and place our game objects in the right position. But we also have to make sure the user finds the character, the pot of gold, the wizards, the dinosaurs, or whatever it is we want the user to interact with. We could do this in several ways. We can place markers on the floor pointing in ...