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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.
Compass
We are working on an application that requires us to "know" the accurate orientation of the device. It seems that HoloLens has a built-in compass, but its API is not open.
Does anyone have a good suggestion about figuring out the device orientation in space?
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exactly what I'm looking for. Did you get a solution?
No, it looks like there is no solution (or there is, but it is a well-kept secret).
I haven't tried it myself, so consider my reply semi-useless, but there are
Have you tried these and didn't they work?
Curious myself
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They are referenced, but it doesn't look like you can access them on HoloLens. If you managed, please let us know.