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JoinXR Quickstart Tutorial

Edd Smith
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This guide will take you right from creating a new account through to beginning to explore JoinXR on your Hololens 2.

Note: This guide assumes that your account has been added to an organization. If it has not then most of the functionality in these documents will be locked and you will not be able to proceed very far with this tutorial. If this is the case please either:
  • Ask your company's JoinXR account owner to add your account to your company's existing organization.
  • Create a new organization (free for a limited period) via the link on your account home page.

Creating an account

  1. Go to join.fracturereality.io 
  2. Click "Register".
  3. Here you have two options:
    1. Create a new account. Just enter an email address and a new password.
    2. Continue with a Microsoft account. Recommended if your company uses Office 365.

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  4. Next, you need to create your profile:
    1. Enter your name and company.
    2. Choose the closest region to you. This ensures you have the best experience when using remote rendering.
    3. Choose your native language (other users' speech will be translated in realtime in to captions in this language)
    4. Select your avatar style. We recommend generating a custom avatar using a photo to make you easily identifiable whilst using Join.

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  5. Now create your customs avatar. It's really simple, just upload a selfie and it will do the rest. 
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  6. Then click finish sign up.

Congratulations you now have a JoinXR user account!

 

Creating a Meeting

A meeting is a virtual space where you can open JoinXR documents and meet with other people. There are two types of meeting, Calendar, and Drop-in. We'll create a drop-in meeting now. A drop-in is a permanent meeting which you can join at any time. You can find more information on meetings here

  1. Select "Drop-ins" from the top bar.
  2. Click "Add Drop-in".
  3. Give your drop in a name.
  4. Click "Save Change"

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Congratulations you now have a Drop-in!

 

Pairing your Hololens 2 with your user

Logging on to JoinXR on your Hololens 2 is done by a pairing process. This process only needs to completed once

  1. First install the JoinXR app from the Microsoft Store on your Hololens 2. You can find it by searching for "Join XR".
  2. Launch the app. 
  3. You will be presented with a pairing code
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  4. Back on join.fracturereality.io click the "Pair New Device" 
  5. Enter the pairing code and click "Pair New Device"
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Back on your Hololens 2 you should see the User Select screen now containing your name and avatar icon. 

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Congratulations you now have now paired a Hololens 2 with your user!

 

Joining your Drop-in

  1. Select your user from the Select User menu.
  2. Now you select the Drop-in you created earlier from the "Select Session" menu
  3. You now need to position the base object. 
  4. Press "Done" when you are happy with the positioning

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Congratulations you now are now in a drop-in!

Opening a document

A JoinXR document is made up of 3D and 2D objects composed into slides, much like a PowerPoint presentation. We've put together a simple document to get you started. Here's how to open it.

  1. Look at the palm of your hand (whichever hand feels comfortable). You will see a menu appear attached to your hand. 
  2. Select "Open"
  3. Choose the "Getting Started" document.

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You can continue your learning in the list of tutorial documents included with the app. They will take you through some of the things you can do in a document.

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