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Microsoft HoloLens Developer???s Guide

By : Dennis Vroegop
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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

Sharing


As my favorite artist once sang: "Two hearts are better than one." That is true for holographic experiences as well. To me, the two biggest differentiators between mixed reality as experienced in the HoloLens and other devices that are currently available, is untethered way of working and the possibility to see what other people are doing.

So, if you have more than one device, it is possible to share data between these two devices. We can even share holograms, thus enforcing the effect of believing objects are actually there. After all, if you see something and someone else sees the same thing and can point out things, it must be real. Right?

We will dive into this now. But first we need to do some system administration.

Setting up networking

We have everything set up: we understand the world and we can map our objects to real-world coordinates. It is time to share these objects with other HoloLenses. However, chances are you do not have access to more than one device. If you or your...