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App Development for Microsoft HoloLens

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn how to program the future. Get started developing virtual reality and augmented reality HoloLens applications for enterprise business and gaming.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Examining the HoloLens hardware
  • Mixed reality scenarios
  • Wearing the HoloLens
  • Using the exercise files
1. Set Up Your Development Environment
  • Install Unity and Visual Studio
  • Install the HoloLens emulator
  • Download the HoloToolkit
2. Basic Configuration and Deployment
  • Configure your Unity project
  • Build in Unity to Visual Studio
  • Deploy to emulator
  • Deploy to HoloLens
3. Basic Interaction
  • Gaze 101
  • Tapping 101
  • Speech recognition
4. Use HoloToolKit
  • The HoloToolkit
  • Project configuration with HoloToolkit
  • Spatial mapping for absolute beginners
  • Build and deploy with the HoloToolkit
  • Spatial mapping and occlusion
  • Spatial understanding capabilities
  • Adding a debug window
  • Making holes in floors
5. Spatial Sound
  • Why use spatial sound?
  • Setting up the audio settings
  • Implementing spatial sounds
6. Shared Experiences
  • How shared holograms work
  • Setting up the server
  • Syncing data
7. Games and Enterprise Applications on the HoloLens
  • 3D models for enterprise apps
  • A simple 3D platform game
  • Every room a level
Conclusion
  • Understanding the development tools and remoting
  • Overcoming common problems
  • The future of mixed reality computing
  • Next steps

Taught by

James Ashley and Dennis Vroegop

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