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HoloLens Beginner's Guide

HoloLens Beginner's Guide

By : Jason M. Odom
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HoloLens Beginner's Guide

HoloLens Beginner's Guide

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By: Jason M. Odom
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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 (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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Welcome to the New World
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Welcome to the New World
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What exactly is the HoloLens?
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What you need to develop for the HoloLens
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Installing the software
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Unity3d quick overview
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Summary
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HoloWorld
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HoloWorld
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Hello World!, as its customary
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Saving the scene
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Objects and components
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First project
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Physics simulations
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Building the project in Unity
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Summary
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I am in Control
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I am in Control
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Prefabs
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Installing the HoloToolkit
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User Input overview
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Gaze
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Gesture
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Voice
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Animation
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Mecanim
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Here is the Game Plan
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Our first script
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Materials, textures, and shaders
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Changing the color
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Time to build and test
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Summary
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User-Friendly Interface
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User-Friendly Interface
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Reloading
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Unity C# scripting
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A quick example
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User interface design
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The Unity camera and HoloLens
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Unity UI
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Any object can be an interface object
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Summary
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Now That Is How It Should Sound
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Now That Is How It Should Sound
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Audio overview
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Here is what it is all about
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Unity audio components
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Spatial sound and HoloLens
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Let's listen to our work
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Summary
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Not So Blank Spaces
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Not So Blank Spaces
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Spatial Mapping
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Let's get into this
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Spatial Mapping in practice
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Our new Skeeball machine
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The home stretch
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Summary
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The Tools of the Trade
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The Tools of the Trade
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Persistence
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World Anchors
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The in-game debug window
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In-game menu
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Summary
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Share What You Have Got
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Share What You Have Got
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Networking
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Making the Skeeball game a shared experience
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A very simple first step
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Spawning our Skeeball machine
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Filling in the blanks
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The payoff
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Putting It All Together
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Putting It All Together
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Our main Prefab
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Importing the RampColliders
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When bounding boxes collide
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Finishing the Prefab
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GameBall Prefab
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Finishing touches
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ApplicationManager
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Fixing Problems
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Fixing Problems
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The Application Manager
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Debugging
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Profiling and fixing performance
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Simplygon
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User interface design

In the world we live in, we are constantly using new and different software. When the newest social media app hits the ground, we want to try it out. Quite often, when we load these new apps, we almost instantly know how they work. This is very much due to user interface design.

According to Wikipedia

"user interface design or user interface engineering is the design of user interfaces for machines and software, such as computers, home appliances, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, with the focus on maximizing usability and the user experience."

Good interface design is both an art and a science, the core being the ability to anticipate the user's needs and design a system that helps nudge the user down the path they are on. With this understanding, we need to make sure that the necessary elements to accomplish the task are available. These elements can be informational, interactive, or visual in design, or combinations of these. A good interface design is...

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