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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

Our main Prefab


In this chapter, we will make some major changes to our skee Prefab. Some of them are simply organizational, while others are there to fill out the elements that we need to make this a complete game.

If you followed the tutorials up to this point, after Chapter 8Share What You Have Got, you should have something that looks like the following screenshot:

As seen in the screenshot, the Skee_Ball object in the skee hierarchy is the largest and most difficult. It holds nearly all the mesh data for the SkeeBall machine. Fortunately, we don't really need to deal with that, so we can just pass that mess by. Then, we have our three point-lights sitting next in the list. After that, we have our scoreboard, 3DTextprefab, very lazily named, and our Start and Options button.

The organization system

While our current setup is simple enough to look at and gives a general idea of how each piece functions, it lacks a certain level of polish in terms of organization to keep the tutorial easy...