I’ve taken the last month off of HoloLens development to spend time deepening my understanding of Unity development. The release of Visual Studio 2017 and Windows 10 Creators Update has reminded me that it is time to update this tutorial for the latest tool chain and wrap up this tutorial series. Only a few things were broken and required minor updates, and the whole tool chain feels more reliable and faster. I’ve updated my tutorial to use the latest version of the HoloToolkit, the recommended Unity version, and the latest Visual Studio version. See below for the index, and expect to start seeing the rest of the tutorial later this week.
Tutorial Index
Versions: Unity 2017.1.0p5 | MixedRealityToolkit-Unity v1.2017.1.0 | Visual Studio 2017 15.3.2
| Unity 3D Project Creation | How to create a HoloLens project in Unity 3D |
| Source Control | Configure git for HoloLens / Unity work |
| Spatial Mapping | How to spatial map a Room |
| Object Surface Observer | Set up fake spatial map data for the Unity editor |
| TagAlongs and Billboarding | Tag along instructions to the user to force text on screen |
| Spatial Understanding | Add spatial understanding to get play space detail |
| Finalizing Spatial Understanding | Complete Spatial Understanding and Input Manager |
| Object Placement and Scaling | Find valid locations for holograms in the play space |
| Hologram Management | Manage the holograms you want to place in the world |
| Cursor and Voice | Add a cursor and voice commands |
| Occlusion | Add occlusion with the real world to your scene |
| Colliders and Rigidbodys | Add Colliders and RigidBodys to your holograms |
- Download the completed app Western Town in the Windows Store!
- Completed Source code from the entire tutorial available on GitHub.