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Microsoft HoloLens By Example

By : Joshua Newnham
Book Image

Microsoft HoloLens By Example

By: Joshua Newnham

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).
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
6
Interacting with Holograms Using Unity

Summary


Congratulations for getting through this chapter. We have covered a lot and only just touched the surface on the topics of DirectX and MR applications, but hopefully enough to excite you. We first walked through the Visual C# DirectX 11 Holographic Template, pointing out some of the main components that are most relevant when developing for the HoloLens. We then built on top of the template, creating an AR application capable of detecting and identifying faces and rendering the details in scene.

As mentioned in the opening of this chapter; I hope this chapter has acted, in part, as a catalyst, sparking your imagination of the possibilities of MR applications. It doesn't take much to extend this example to something that can help the visually impaired better sense and understand their surroundings or help collapse cultural barriers by automatically translating foreign languages into your native tongue.

In the next chapter, we will continue this path of imagining how we can envision...