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.
HoloLens 2 Game Dev Project: Terrace
Super cool that there's finally a forum for MR developers and enthusiasts! I'm an indie game developer working on a boardgame called Terrace for HoloLens, PC, and Xbox. The PC and Xbox versions will have a minimal mode (45° isometric view of the board in a black void) and a "full" 3D mode set in a swanky sci-fi / modern lounge of sorts on a space station. On HoloLens, minimal mode is just the board... which you can place on any surface or leave floating in the air. The menu system is a Near Interactions menu panel which will be dynamically placed at roughly eye level on the closest wall. Instead of a "full" mode, there will be a "mixed" mode on HoloLens, where set pieces from the aforementioned sci-fi scene are dynamically placed in your space (a viewport into space on the wall, the table pinned to the floor with the board on top of it, etc.) Controls will use hand tracking (as shown in the GIF), although I'd love to use gaze and voice at some point for accessibility. Ultimate stretch goal is to eventually add cross-platform shared space multiplayer. If I created an iOS and Android version of the game, those clients could join the same game as someone wearing HoloLens... with up to four players in the same physical space. The host would position the gameboard and the other players would find it (either via adhoc sharing of the world anchor or by the host game creating a very short lived Azure Spatial Anchor). The game has the official blessing of the original IP creator/owner and (if I ever finish it) will be available for free, no advertisements or in-app purchases, and the source code will be published on GitHub. Toryn Farr https://www.linkedin.com/in/torynfarr/HoloLens 2 + Mixed Reality Applications | Technical Datasheet
Click below to download HoloLens 2 Technical Datasheet https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/ is an untethered, self-contained holographic device that allows users to leverage enterprise ready https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/apps and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/mixed-reality/ while working heads-up and hands-free. By merging the real world with the digital world, MR users across industries can benefit from enriched remote collaboration, increased precision of work, minimized human error, fewer resource gaps, better knowledge retention, and more. Pair HoloLens 2 with a comprehensive ecosystem of apps and services from Microsoft and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/mixed-reality-partners for https://tools.totaleconomicimpact.com/go/microsoft/HoloLens2MRApps/ impact.
