Last Updated: Apr 18, 2017
Tutorial Accomplishments
- Spatial Mapping Observer and Manager
- Next Steps after Spatial Mapping
HoloLens Tutorial – Spatial Mapping
HoloLens
Favorite Resources for Developing on HoloLens
A question I struggled with as a I started to develop for HoloLens is where to find information. There are not a lot of good sources of development information since public development only started about 6 months ago and the community is very small. The first place I would recommend is Microsoft’s official resources:
- Windows HoloAcademy – Very out of date, but all the concepts are still correct, a good starting point
- Windows Holographic documentation – This is kept current and has great information not available elsewhere
- Official HoloLens Forums – Very active community but hard to get answers on the tough questions
Unofficially there are a couple other very good resources:
- Unity 3D HoloLens Forum – This forum is less active but tends to do better with the tougher questions
- HoloDevelopers Slack – Created by Jesse McCulloch this is an active community with great discussions, my favorite place to discuss HoloLens Development
- Stack Overflow – A bit of activity is starting here, but small compared to the activity in the forums above
- My HoloLens Tutorial – Still a work in progress, but I am aiming to make it the most complete and up to date tutorial available
Do you know of a great source of information that I missed? If you do, please let me know in the comments!
HoloLens Tutorial – Source Control
HoloLens Tutorial – Unity 3d Project Creation
HoloLens Development Tutorial Based on Talk
I’ve learned a lot about developing for HoloLens in the last few months. The hardest lesson was that the HoloAcademy is badly out of date and many of the SDK’s are not documented.
HoloLens 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.
Slides from my HoloLens Talk
HoloLens Talk this Saturday at Milwaukee Code Camp
Augmented Reality – Let’s Make Some Holograms!
Where: Milwaukee Code Camp
When: 10/15/2016 9:15 AM
Link: http://www.milwaukeecodecamp.com
Do you want to explore Mars? Model a building on your conference room table? Play Minecraft in your living room? All of these things are being done today using Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality has shifted from mobile app gimmick to an immersive UXD experience that is unrivaled.