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Describe the problem
Holograms come in many sizes, and bounding box affordances for positioning, resizing, and rotating do not work well for smaller and larger objects. Small object bounding boxes make it hard to grab the right corner resize or centerline rotate controls. Large object bounding boxes make it hard to see what's happening when resizing from a corner - the action is happening out of the FOV, so the mixed reality context of hologram and real world cannot be evaluated in real time, making it a clumsy interaction. Furthermore, user distance to hologram is a factor that makes interactions less predictable and successful depending on circumstance. Altogether, the bounding box control does not fit diversity of user needs, and forces the user to adapt to the control
Describe the solution you'd like
We propose a solution that ensures the holographic controls adapt to the user. This means the human is the most important ingredient in any interaction. D365 Guides solves these problems by always orienting the 3D controls to the user. The user does not have to move to get the right angle, since the controls move to face them. If the user backs up, the controls grow, ensuring it's always easy to grab the right control, even when further away from the hologram. The user can effortlessly move between direct touch and far laser, while targeting the same controls in a repeatable way. The controls are centered on the object, so no matter the hologram size, the interaction for resizing and rotating is uniform and successful.
Describe alternatives you've considered
There are edge cases with the Guides solution, such as a lack of precision increments or nudge features constrained to a specific axis. It'd be awesome if we see the community adding in these much requested features. But user-centric is much better than object centric for the diversity of size and distance and orientation of interactions that happen when placing holographic content.
Additional context
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/mixed-reality/guides/authoring-gestures-hl2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/mixed-reality/guides/hololens-app-orientation#manipulate