Leveraging cloud anchors in authentication

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, at a wearable device communicably coupled to a controllable device in a physical environment, a request to access the controllable device, the request determined to be received from an unauthenticated device;
• determining a pose of the wearable device within the physical environment;
• rendering, in the wearable device, a prompt to select a permission or denial of access to the controllable device by the unauthenticated device;
• and
• in response to receiving permission to access the controllable device:
• authenticating the unauthenticated device to access the controllable device from a region of the physical environment, the region defined based on the pose of the wearable device, the region corresponding with a map of at least one cloud anchor associated with the physical environment, and
• performing the request.

A computing system comprising:

• a wearable device including a sensor;
• at least one processing device;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the computing system to perform operations including:
• detecting, by the sensor of the wearable device, at least one cloud anchor that includes an identifier associated with a network and configured for a physical environment, the at least one cloud anchor including a visual feature representing a physical object in the physical environment;
• in response to detecting that a location associated with the at least one cloud anchor is within a threshold distance of the wearable device and detecting that the wearable device has access to the at least one cloud anchor, triggering extraction of the identifier from the at least one cloud anchor;
• and
• connecting the wearable device to the network based on an authentication corresponding to the identifier.

A non-transitory, machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to:

• detect, by a sensor on a wearable device, at least one cloud anchor that includes an identifier associated with a network and configured for a physical environment, the at least one cloud anchor including a visual feature representing a physical object in the physical environment;
• in response to detecting that a location associated with the at least one cloud anchor is within a threshold distance of the wearable device and detecting that the wearable device has access to the at least one cloud anchor, trigger extraction of the identifier from the at least one cloud anchor;
• and
• connect the wearable device to the network based on an authentication corresponding to the identifier.