keyboard.md

title	description	author	ms.author	ms.date	ms.topic	keywords
Keyboard	Learn how to invoke and use the system keyboard using the Mixed Reality Toolkit.	lolambean	lolab	11/01/2019	article	Mixed Reality, Controls, interaction, ui, ux, mixed reality headset, windows mixed reality headset, virtual reality headset, HoloLens, keyboard, MRTK, Mixed Reality Toolkit

Keyboard

Your mixed reality application can invoke the system keyboard at any time, which behaves according to the target platform's capabilities. For example, the keyboard on HoloLens 2 supports direct hand interactions, while HoloLens (1st gen) keyboards support gaze and air-taps.

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System keyboard in MRTK (Mixed Reality Toolkit) for Unity

• MRTK - System keyboard

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Next Development Checkpoint

If you're following the Unity development journey we've laid out, your next task is to deploy your application to a device or emulator.

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Deploy to HoloLens or Windows Mixed Reality immersive headsets

See also

• Cursors
• Hand ray
• Button
• Interactable object
• Bounding box and App bar
• Manipulation
• Hand menu
• Near menu
• Object collection
• Voice command
• Keyboard
• Tooltip
• Slate
• Slider
• Shader
• Billboarding and tag-along
• Displaying progress
• Surface magnetism