OAuth 2.0 for Mixed Reality applications
We recently collaborated with Aveva, an industrial design and management software company. The goal for Aveva was to improve its remote rendering service and extend this technology to support an ever-growing list of platforms and devices including HoloLens. As a result of our collaboration, we built 3DToolkit, a toolkit for creating powerful cloud-based 3D experiences that can stream to any device.
One of the key decisions we had to make was how to secure these 3D experiences. After investigating different techniques, we chose the OAuth 2.0 industry-standard protocol to authenticate our users. This protocol is widely supported by authentication providers including Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. As a result, 3DToolkit allows users to authenticate using account information from any of these providers. While 3DToolkit provides resources for building many types of 3D streaming experiences, this code story focuses on a challenge we faced with authentication, when developing our HoloLens experience in partnership with Aveva. Since Aveva’s service handles confidential data, we needed users to authenticate before using it. To make this easy with Windows Mixed Reality we built a system to allow users to use a different and familiar device to authenticate to the Windows Mixed Reality session.
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