Immersive Office 365: Bringing Mixed Reality and HoloLens into the Digital Workplace

Bring mixed reality into your office workplace by building immersive experiences using data and content from your Office 365 platform. Imagine being able to sit at your desk and surround yourself with a 3D chart showing your work relationships as mined from your relationships with others based on how you collaborate together. This book shows you how to access your Office 365 data using the Microsoft Graph API, and then helps you present that data in a 3D modeling visualization using the Microsoft HoloLens 2 as a mixed reality device.

This book covers the growing number of tools and techniques by which to access and visualize data on a Microsoft HoloLens 2 device. Foremost is the Graph API, giving access to the full range of data in Office 365. Also covered are Unity and Visual Studio, the development environments from which to create mixed reality applications for Microsoft HoloLens 2. You will learn how to load data from and save data to your Office 365 platform based on several interesting use cases. You will be able to extend your digital workplace into a 3D space powered by Microsoft HoloLens 2.

Whether you know Office 365 and want to move toward mixed reality, or whether you know the Microsoft HoloLens 2 and want to build functionality around Office 365 data, this book helps you step up and accomplish your goal of bridging between mixed reality and Office 365.

You will:

• Create immersive experiences using Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Office 365
• Access Office 365 data programmatically using the Microsoft Graph API
• Control your immersive experiences using natural gestures and eye tracking
• Understand and correctly use different visualization models
• Implement design patterns to write better code in Unity
• Know how to access services using web requests via DLLs

About the Author

Alexander Meijers is a professional who inspires, motivates, and supports others while helping them to innovate. His goal is to help organizations achieve more by creating, improving, and working smarter as well as shortening business processes and improving the environment for employees. As a Global XR Tech lead and Microsoft Windows MVP for Mixed Reality, and working for Avanade, Alexander understands business issues and translates them into logical solutions using technology. He supports companies in applying emerging experiences during their journey to transition to digital. He works with technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in combination with cloud services such as the Mixed Reality services and Azure Digital Twins from the Microsoft Azure platform, Office 365, and Dynamics 365. Alexander's primary focus is in manufacturing, utilities, and the engineering and construction sector. However, he certainly does not stay away from other sectors. He engages in speaking, blogging, and is an organizer of local and global events such as the Mixed Reality User Group in the Netherlands and globally with the Global XR Talks and Global XR Bootcamp that are part of the GlobalXR.Community.