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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
7
Build End-to-End Retail Solution - Scenario Identification and Sketching

Holograms in reality


Till now, we have mentioned Hologram several times. It is evident that these are crucial for HoloLens and Holographic apps, but what is a Hologram?

Holograms are the virtual objects which will be made up with light and sound and blend with the real world to give us an immersive MR experience with both real and virtual worlds. In other words, a Hologram is an object like any other real-world object; the only difference is that it is made up of light rather than matter.

Note

The technology behind making holograms is known as Holography.

The following figure represent two holographic objects placed on the top of a real-size table and gives the experience of placing a real object on a real surface:

Holograms objects in real environment

HoloLens, holograms and your real world

Holograms are physically intangible. We can't touch them; however, we can view them from a distance and from different angles. Different angles give us a different perspective of the same holographic object...