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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

Windows Device Portal 


The Windows Device Portal for HoloLens lets you configure and manage your device remotely over Wi-Fi or USB. The device portal is a web server that running on the HoloLens that can be accessed from the web browser. In the previous section, we discussed deploying to the emulator and device. In each case, we obtained the IP address. We can use this to access the device Portal; simply enter the IP address obtained from the HoloLens device or emulator into a web browser. No authentication is required when logging in to the emulator unlike logging in to the device. The details of these steps can be found on the official website, https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/using_the_windows_device_portal#connecting_over_wi-fi.

The Device Portal exposes a lot of functionality to configure and manage the device. Details of this can be found on the page mentioned in the previous paragraph, but the intention here is just to highlight its existence and usefulness...