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The Mixed Reality Forums here are no longer being used or maintained.
There are a few other places we would like to direct you to for support, both from Microsoft and from the community.
The first way we want to connect with you is our mixed reality developer program, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/IWantMR.
For technical questions, please use Stack Overflow, and tag your questions using either hololens or windows-mixed-reality.
If you want to join in discussions, please do so in the HoloDevelopers Slack, which you can join by going to https://aka.ms/holodevelopers, or in our Microsoft Tech Communities forums at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/mixed-reality/ct-p/MicrosoftMixedReality.
And always feel free to hit us up on Twitter @MxdRealityDev.
Display multiple windows
einstyle
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What are the available options for displaying multiple windows in Hololens? For example having the main XR application we developed and at the same time display Microsoft edge, power point and photos
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stepan_stulov
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Hey, @einstyle
You have two choices here:
- You create a windowed application. Such application renders all of its content into its window. You can have that window coexist with other apps' windows in the shell / holographic desktop.
- You create a fullscreen application. Such application is given the entire holographic desktop exclusively to show only its content (with the exception of some in-app recording/remoting overlays). No other apps can render into this exclusive context.
That's it. There is nothing in between. The only known (to me) exception to this is the Holograms app that is kind of fullscreen but its holograms coexist with the windowed apps. Such non-exclusivity, last time I checked, is not available for third party apps such as yours. There is simply no public API for that.
This has been a somewhat frequently requested feature for fullscreen apps for some time now.
Cheers
Building the future of holographic navigation. We're hiring.
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Hey, @einstyle
You have two choices here:
That's it. There is nothing in between. The only known (to me) exception to this is the Holograms app that is kind of fullscreen but its holograms coexist with the windowed apps. Such non-exclusivity, last time I checked, is not available for third party apps such as yours. There is simply no public API for that.
This has been a somewhat frequently requested feature for fullscreen apps for some time now.
Cheers
Building the future of holographic navigation. We're hiring.