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Microsoft HoloLens By Example

By : Newnham

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Microsoft HoloLens By Example

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By: Newnham

Buy this Book

Overview of this book

Are you a developer who is fascinated with Microsoft HoloLens and its capabilities? Do you want to learn the intricacies of working with the HoloLens SDK and create your own apps? If so, this is the book for you. This book introduces and demystifies the HoloLens platform and introduces new ways you can interact with computers (Mixed Reality). It will teach you the important concepts, get you excited about the possibilities, and give you the tools to continue exploring and experimenting. You will go through the journey of creating four independent examples throughout the book, two using DirectX and two using Unity. You will learn to implement spatial mapping and gesture control, incorporate spatial sound, and work with different types of input and gaze. You will also learn to use the Unity 5 SDK for HoloLens and create apps with it. Collectively, the apps explore the major concepts of HoloLens, but each app is independent, giving you the flexibility to choose where to start (and end).

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Enhancing Reality

A brief look at the past

Defining mixed reality

Summary

Tagging the World Using DirectX

Creating a mixed reality app

Project setup

The project

Summary

Assistant Item Finder Using DirectX

Project setup

The project

Summary

Building Paper Trash Ball in Unity

Configuring a Unity project for HoloLens

Creating our first Mixed Reality scene

Mapping our environment

Summary

Building Paper Trash Ball Using Holotoolkit in Unity

Adding HoloToolkit to your project

Keeping the user informed

Mapping our environment

Procedurally placing our bin

Nothing but net - throwing paper

Summary

Interacting with Holograms Using Unity

Project setup

Summary

Collaboration with HoloLens Using Unity

Project setup

The project

Summary

Developing a Multiplayer Game Using Unity

Multiplayer networking

The project

Summary

Deploying Your Apps to the HoloLens Device and Emulator

Rapid feedback with Unity's Tooling

HoloLens emulator

Windows Device Portal

Summary

Adding HoloToolkit to your project

Our first job is to get HoloToolkit into our project. To do this, we will be loading a version of HoloToolkit-Unity (original source from https://github.com/Microsoft/HoloToolkit-Unity) that comes bundled with the project files for this book under the directory HoloToolkit-Unity.

The version of HoloToolkit used in this chapter was released in late 2016. You can clone this version directly from the original source by running the following commands in the Command Prompt:

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/HoloToolkit-Unity.git
git checkout cd2fd2f9569552c37ab9defba108e7b7d9999b12

We now will create a Unity package so we can easily import it into our project. Once the HoloToolkit-Unity project is loaded in Unity, select everything in your Project panel. With everything selected, export it as a Unity package via Assets | Export...