Multi-endpoint mixfd-reality meetings

A system arranged to provide a geographically distributed live mixed-reality meeting, the system comprising:

• an mixed reality service arranged:
• to receive, from a camera at a first endpoint, a live video stream,
• to generate a mixed reality view incorporating the received live video stream,
• to output the mixed reality view for rendering on the display of the first endpoint and a display of at least one other geographically distant endpoint,
• in response to receiving, from the first end point, user input defining a bounding area or the at least one other geographically distant endpoint, to calculate a physical world anchor for the bounding area using the received user input and insert the bounding area in the mixed reality view at a physical world position determined using the physical world anchor, the physical world anchor comprising a set of coordinates that defines the bounding in a fixed position around an object in the physical world,
• wherein the bounding area triggers application of different content processing rule sets to content objects placed into the mixed reality view by users dependent upon the position of the content objects relative to the bounding area in physical world space.

One or more computer storage media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:

• receiving a live video stream;
• generating a mixed reality view incorporating the received video stream;
• rendering the mixed reality view at a display at the first endpoint and transmitting the mixed reality view to at least one other geographically distant endpoint;
• receiving user input from the first end point or the at least one other geographically distant endpoint, the user input defining a bounding area;
• calculating a physical world anchor for the bounding area using the user input, the physical world anchor anchoring the bounding area in a fixed position to an object in the physical world and within the bounding area based on a set of coordinates that defines the bounding around object;
• and
• inserting the bounding area in the mixed reality view at a physical world position determined using the physical world anchor, wherein the bounding area triggers application of different content processing rule sets to content objects placed into the mixed reality view by users dependent upon the position of the content objects relative to the bounding area in physical world space.