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Microsoft HoloLens Developer???s Guide

By : Dennis Vroegop
Book Image

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

Some final thoughts on spatial sound


We have covered a lot in this chapter. Again, most developers seem to forget about sounds in their applications. It is not part of our DNA, it seems. Sounds are not as important as great graphics, is what most developers seem to think. I hope that I have convinced you of the opposite, that is, sounds are important. They are even more important in an immersive experience such as virtual, augmented, and mixed realities scenarios.

Sounds are a part of our world. Everything we do makes a sound. We always hear sounds. As I type this, I hear the clicking of the keys I press. In the background, I hear a dog walking around the house, its claws ticking on the floor. I hear the squeaking of the chair as I move about. I do not notice these sounds, just you do not notice the sounds around you. We only pay attention to sounds if they are out of the ordinary. However, if you remove all these sounds, the world seems flat and uninteresting. Having no sounds, even those...