The Views menu in the portal

The Views menu deals with the general information screen and the things your device actually sees. The other two, Performance and System, contain detailed information about the inner workings of the device and the applications running on it. We will have a thorough look at those when we get to debugging applications in later chapters, so for now I will just say that they exist.

The options are as follows:

  • Home
  • 3D View
  • Mixed reality capture

By default, you will get the home screen. At the center of the screen, you will see information about the device. Here, you can see the following items:

  • Device status: This is indicated by a green checkmark if everything is okay or a red cross if things are not okay. The ...

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