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HoloLens Blueprints

You're reading from HoloLens Blueprints Build immersive AR and Mixed Reality Applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787281943

Length 336 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Microsoft HoloLens

Concepts

Augmented Reality

Authors (3):

Abhijit Jana

Sharma

Rao

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

Disclaimer

Customer Feedback

www.PacktPub.com

Dedication

Preface

1. Digital Reality - Under the Hood FREE CHAPTER

2. HoloLens – The Most Natural Way to Interact

3. Explore HoloLens as Hologram - Scenario Identification and Sketching

4. Explore HoloLens as Hologram - Developing Application and Deploying on Device

5. Remote Monitoring of Smart Building(s) Using HoloLens - Scenario Identification and Sketching

6. Remote Monitoring of Smart Building(s) Using HoloLens - Developing Application and Deploying on Device

7. Build End-to-End Retail Solution - Scenario Identification and Sketching

8. Build End-to-End Retail Scenario - Developing Application and Deploying on Device

9. Possibilities

10. Microsoft HoloLens in Enterprise

Using HoloLens emulator

HoloLens emulator will allow you to test holographic applications on your PC without a physical HoloLens device. This emulator uses a Hyper-V virtual machine, which is similar to other emulators, such as windows or android emulators.

To test out the emulator, let's create a sample universal windows holographic application and run it on HoloLens emulator. Follow these steps to create a new holographic application:

Open Visual Studio and create a new project by selecting the menu option File | New | Project.
Within the New Project window, select Holographic DirectX 11 App (Universal Windows) project type and create Project.

Holographic project option in Visual Studio

This will create a default Holographic project with a rotating cube in the default view.
Now make sure that Solution Platform option is set to x86, and HoloLens Emulator is selected in the Emulator option. After that, build and run the project.

Project type and emulator setting before build

After the project is...

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Authors (3)

Abhijit Jana

Abhijit Jana

Abhijit Jana is a technology leader, strategist, solution architect, development consultant, and trusted technology advisor with 14 years of experience in the IT industry, with expertise in development, architecting, engineering, consulting, services delivery, leadership, and mentoring. He is currently associated with West Pharmaceutical Services as the director of software engineering and is responsible for building, managing, and leading the overall application development and software engineering team. Before West, he was associated with Microsoft and is a former MVP. There, he managed several complex projects and delivered solutions to enterprise customers worldwide. He has been a speaker at various technology conferences and several IITs across India.

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Sharma

Sharma

Manish Sharma works with Microsoft as a solution architect as part of Microsoft Services. As, a solution architect, he is responsible for leading large enterprise-transformational engagements defining technology/solution roadmaps, conducting architecture and technical evaluations of enterprise engagements, and architecting multimillion-dollar solution developments, and maintenance of outsourcing management. He is also a technology evangelist and speaker at prestigious events, such as Microsoft TechEd on the latest and cutting edge technologies, such as HoloLens, Internet of Things, connected cars, and cloud technologies such as Azure.

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Rao

Rao

Mallikarjuna Rao works with Microsoft as UX Designer/3D mixed reality artist as part of Microsoft Services. He has 15 years of experience in the animation industry, with around 12 years' international exposure. He has worked as a senior 3D asset supervisor for feature films, television series, commercials, and game projects. Mallikarjuna has worked on pivotal projects for big names in the industry, such as Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Junior, Warner Bros Pictures, Yash Raj Films, and UTV Motion Pictures, which put him under the limelight at the international level. He has an in-depth knowledge of the 3D Asset production pipeline and UX design principles.

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