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Microsoft HoloLens Developer???s Guide

By : Dennis Vroegop
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Microsoft HoloLens Developer???s Guide

By: Dennis Vroegop

Overview of this book

HoloLens, Microsoft’s innovative augmented reality headset, overlaps holograms into a user’s vision of their environment. Your ideas are closer to becoming real when you can create and work with holograms in relation to the world around you. If you are dreaming beyond virtual worlds, beyond screens, beyond pixels, and want to take a big leap in the world of augmented reality, then this is the book you want. Starting off with brainstorming and the design process, you will take your first steps in creating your application for HoloLens. You will learn to add gestures and write an app that responds to verbal commands before gradually moving on creating sounds in the app and placing them in a 3D space. You will then communicate between devices in the boundaries of the UWP model.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Sound design


You need to plan your sounds. Just like graphics, sounds are an important part of the experience for the user. As I have stated before, you need a good modeler and visual artist in your team if you want to create compelling experiences. The same goes for sound; you need to have effects that are used well. Now, it is hard to find people who can advise you on that. The gaming industry figured this out long ago, but for most developers, this is all new. Add to that the capabilities of HoloLens, and you will understand why we need to spend some serious time on this topic.

The design principles for spatial sound

We need to discuss some general principles that come into play when we want to use spatial sound in our applications. These design principles should be firmly locked in your brain, as they apply all the time, in every single app you will write for this platform.

The benefits of spatial sound

By using the spatial sound capabilities of HoloLens, we can have a great experience....