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HoloLens Blueprints

By : Abhijit Jana, Manish Sharma, Mallikarjuna Rao
Book Image

HoloLens Blueprints

By: Abhijit Jana, Manish Sharma, Mallikarjuna Rao

Overview of this book

Do you want to create stunning applications with HoloLens? Are you a developer who is fascinated with Microsoft HoloLens and its capabilities? If so, this is the book for you. This book introduces and demystifies the HoloLens platform and shows you different ways of interaction with computers (mixed-reality). You will start your mixed-reality journey by understanding different types of digital reality. You will learn to build your first holographic app. Also, you will understand holographic application integration possibilities within Line of Business Applications using Azure. Moving ahead, you will create Integrated Solutions using IoT with HoloLens. Gradually you'll learn how to create and deploy apps on a device. You will learn to publish application to the store; if you are an enterprise developer, you will also manage and distribute applications for enterprise-enabled or domain-joined HoloLens. Finally, you will develop an end-to-end realistic holographic app, ranging from scenario identification to sketching, development, deployment, and, finally, production.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
Disclaimer
Customer Feedback
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface
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Build End-to-End Retail Solution - Scenario Identification and Sketching

Digital Reality and the current market place


We learned about VR, AR, and MR; let's see what devices are currently available on the market to explore all these different experiences:

Digital Reality device family

  • Oculus: Owned by Facebook, the first in the industry to launch a VR device
  • HTC Vive: A VR device launched by the Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC
  • Sony PlayStation VR: A VR device that works with Sony PlayStation, but also works with any personal computer
  • Google VR: This is a Google VR device, and is used along with Android smartphones
  • Gear VR: This is a Samsung VR device, and is used along with Galaxy smartphones
  • OSVR: An open source VR device, started with the support of companies such as Intel and Razer
  • Google Glass: An AR device launched by Google
  • HoloLens: Microsoft MR wireless and wearable device
  • Met: Mixed or Augmented Reality device, which projects virtual images in the wearer's field of vision
  • Magic Leap: MR device, still under development