Programming for Mixed Reality with Windows 10, Unity, Vuforia and UrhoSharp, First Edition

Chapter 1Introduction to Windows Mixed Reality

Windows Mixed Reality is a platform that delivers a completely new way of mixing digitally generated three-dimensional content with the real world or environment. To understand what this means, let’s first discuss how people use traditional computing systems for work or fun. Typically, we work with two-dimensional screens, in which we use perspective drawing to depict three-dimensional objects. Although this approach is suitable for designing and implementing various elements, we cannot directly interact with digitally created objects. So, our ability to present or interact with what we create is limited. Windows Mixed Reality aims to suppress this barrier by providing a revolutionary way of computing. ...