Mixed reality web service platform

This paper presents a RESTful Web service platform for applications for both Web browsers and mobile clients. Having a common service backend makes creating applications fast, simple, and open to third parties. The paper presents two mixed reality applications that have been built on the platform. It summarizes requirements for a mixed reality platform and defines a mixed reality domain model that the platform and applications share. In addition, it describes how the clients can use the REST interface to perform operations on user-generated content, as well as access real-life commercial geo-content such as street-view panoramas and building models.

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