Microsoft HoloLens Developer’s Guide

Key Features

• Create immersive augmented reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens from scratch 
• Leverage the powerful HoloLens sensors to interact with real-world motions and gestures and make your app life-like
• Explore the powerful Unity 5 SDK along with the Windows Unified platform to get the most out of your HoloLens app

Book Description

HoloLens, Microsoft's innovative augmented reality headset, overlaps holograms into a user's vision of their environment. If you are dreaming beyond virtual worlds, beyond screens, beyond pixels, and want to take a big leap in the world of augmented reality, then this is the book you want.

Starting off with brainstorming and the design process, you will take your first steps in creating your application for HoloLens. You will learn to add gestures and write an app that responds to verbal commands before gradually moving on creating sounds in the app and placing them in a 3D space. You will then communicate between devices in the boundaries of the UWP model. Finally, you will learn how to integrate Unity 3D and use assets from third parties to enrich your app.

What you will learn

• Design an app for HoloLens that is feasible and attractive to use
• Add gestures and interact with them
• Create sounds in the app and place them in a 3D space
• Use spatial sound to enhance the realism of your app
• Interact with the physical environment to place holograms on top of physical objects
• Compare HoloLens with the other products and know how to use its strengths
• Use assets from third parties to enrich our app