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HoloLens Beginner's Guide

By : Jason M. Odom
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HoloLens Beginner's Guide

By: Jason M. Odom

Overview of this book

HoloLens revolutionizes the way we work and interact with the virtual world. HoloLens brings you the amazing world of augmented reality and provides an opportunity to explore it like never before. This is the best book for developers who want to start creating interactive and intuitive augmented reality apps for the HoloLens platform. You will start with a walkthrough of the HoloLens hardware before creating your first app. Next you will be introduced to the various HoloLens sensors and find out how to program them efficiently so that they can interact with the real world seamlessly. Moving on, you will learn how to create smart animations and add video overlay that implements real-time tracking and motion-sensing abilities to your HoloLens app. Finally, you will learn how to test your app effectively.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Voice


The last but hardly the least important form of input for the HoloLens is Voice. The Voice component is designed to let the user look at a hologram, see any commands associated with that hologram, and simply say the command out loud to invoke it.

A convention has been laid out for developers. See it, say it means that if you have a voice command for the user input, a label with the appropriate button should be visible; for instance, a button that causes robots to destroy a village in a game might say destroy. When the user Gazes at the village and utters the word, he can smile as the army of robots descend on those poor villagers. Oh, the humanity!

Now, apart from voice commands, the Voice system can also be used for taking dictation, as well as communication. Dictation works surprisingly well inside Unity apps, and in the chat room social media-driven world we live in, real-time voice communication is essential.

It should be noted that only one of these modes can be running at a given...