I’ve updated this tutorial to use the MixedReality Toolkit packages, which is a great improvement. (Nice job MRToolkit team, this was a huge step forward in usability!) I’ve also updated the tutorial to use Unity 2017.1 and the latest Visual Studio 2017. There is an incompatibility between 2017.1 and VS 2017 so make sure to update to the latest patch level that I have linked in the index. The good news is that no code changes were required. This updated version has been checked into Github. Unfortunately the HoloLens Emulator is out of date and no longer works with this tool chain.

I have published the complete source code for Western Town app on GitHub at:

https://github.com/CameronVetter/Western-Town

Last Updated: Jul 3, 2017

Tutorial Accomplishments

1. Colliders
2. Add a Character with a Rigidbody
3. Animate the Character
4. Add Character Movement

Last Updated: Jun 4, 2017

Tutorial Accomplishments

1. Add occlusion to the scene
2. Fix Voice command to swap between grid and occlusion

I’ve updated this tutorial to use the latest version of HoloToolkit, Visual Studio and Unity. Nothing was broken and it looks like Spatial Understanding is getting very close to working in Unity with it’s Holographic emulation! I did have to delete all the files that were generated / built by unity or visual studio to get things working, but no code changes were needed. See below for the index, and expect to see the next section of the tutorial later today.

Last Updated: Apr 30, 2017

Tutorial Accomplishments

1. Add a cursor to the scene
2. Add A Voice Command to the scene

Last Updated: Apr 29, 2017

Tutorial Accomplishments

1. Create a Manager that knows about all the Holograms to instantiate
2. Update the Object Placer to instantiate Holograms based on the Manager

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.

Last Updated: Apr 23, 2017

Tutorial Accomplishments

1. Use Spatial Understanding to find the location for a hologram
2. Instantiate the hologram in the world
3. Scale the hologram to the size of the available space