HoloLens 2 Development Edition is now available in the United States
After strong demand for HoloLens 2, we are excited to announce availability of HoloLens 2 Development Edition in the United States. We are expanding to Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy by the end of the year.Take the HoloLens 2 App Dev Fundamentals Challenge.
If you've considered exploring HoloLens development, there has never been a better time to get started. During the month of January, you can join other learners committed to taking the first step by signing up for the HoloLens 2 App Development Fundamentals Challenge. When you join the challenge, you'll be assigned to one of four teams in a competition to see who will have the most learners complete the required training by January 31, 2022. The training includes a series of step-by-step Exercises and Knowledge Checks that will show you the basics of HoloLens 2 app development including how to: Configure Unity and set up a project with the Mixed Reality Toolkit Add hand interactions to manipulate objects Position, organize and lay out objects Use solvers to create intelligent object placements Add buttons, dynamic menus, and descriptions to objects Use controls to manipulate objects Enable eye-tracking and voice commands Anchor objects to the real world Add spatial audio to an application Use speech recognition and transcription Integrate to cloud services like custom vision and bot services Create a Holographic Remoting app to visualize 3D content Sound fun? You bet! Sound challenging? Indeed. We suspect it will take around 6 hours to complete the exercises once the tools are installed and ready. The modular design of the training makes it easy to pause and resume at any time, so you'll have the flexibility to go at your own pace. Don’t delay too long, as you must finish by the end of the month to help your team win. Don't have a HoloLens 2? That's okay. While it is always the most fun way to interact with your holographic apps in the real world, you'll be able to learn the basics of developing a mixed reality application and view your progress in Unity's editor or by deploying it to the HoloLens 2 Emulator. If learning about MR (Mixed Reality) is on your to-do list, don't delay! Join the Challenge and find yourself on the leaderboard with other #holowhos, #mixedrealities, #metawhats, and #deliverators getting a jump on their 2022 skilling goals.Moving forward to OpenXR!
What an amazing ride! Earlier this year, Microsoft and Oculus started shipping conformant OpenXR runtimes to all customers, with SteamVR and HTC previewing OpenXR support soon after. Since then, we've seen wide adoption of OpenXR across the industry: from the new RenderDragon engine in Minecraft to the WebXR implementation in Edge and Chrome – from Babylon Native to Blender 2.83. With OpenXR, you can build engines and apps that target HoloLens 2 with the same API that you use to target PC VR headsets, including Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Oculus Rift headsets and (currently in developer preview) SteamVR headsets. OpenXR lets engines write code once that's then portable across hardware platforms from a wide range of VR and AR vendors.
UX Tools 0.10 Release: Tap to Place, Menus, and UMG support, now available in the UE4 Marketplace
Today we’re shipping our third MRTK-Unreal release, UX Tools (UXT) 0.10, with a slew of new features to help developers place their content in their physical world, organize their controls into menus, and interact with existing UI.
