Intro If you are developing an app using the Mixed Reality Toolkit 2 that requires interaction with a Spatial Mesh, the development process can become cumbersome: add code or assets with Unity and Visual Studio, create IL2CPP solution, wait, compile and deploy, wait, check behavior – rinse and repeat. You quickly learn to do as […]
Intro As I announced in this tweet that you might remember from February the HoloLens 2 version of my app Walk the World sports two hand palm menus – a primary menu, often used command menu that is attached to your left hand that you operate with your right hand, and a secondary less-used settings […]
Intro This is simple, short but I have to blog it because I discovered this, forgot about it, then discovered it again. So if anything this blog is for informing you as well al to make sure I keep remembering this myself. If you have done any UI design for Mixed Reality or HoloLens, you […]
Intro Although the focus for Mixed Reality Toolkit 2 now understandably is on Microsoft’s big Mixed Reality business player – HoloLens 2 – it’s still perfectly doable – and viable, IMHO – to develop Windows Mixed Reality apps for WMR immersive headsets. Case in point: most of the downloads I get for my three Mixed […]
Intro The MRTK2 allows for development for both HoloLens 1, HoloLens 2 and Windows Mixed Reality immersive headsets with nearly identical code. And a growing number of other platforms, but the focus is now understandably on HoloLens 2. Yet, if you want to make apps with a broad range, you might as well use the […]
Prelude With apologies for the uncharacteristic hiatus in my blog – last month I had a HoloLens 2 available for development and test purposes, and utilizing that opportunity to the max had a bit more priority than actually blogging about it. Then the world got hit head-on by the Corona madness and I had other […]
Intro Tuesday, February 7, 2020 marked an important occasion to me. A HoloLens 2 arrived at my door. For the first time since March 2019, where I got to try a HoloLens 2 during the MVP Summit for a few minutes, I actually had my hands on a device. And what’s more – I got […]
Intro Last September I wrote about various hoops you had to jump through to get a Mixed Reality app to appear in the store and not have it to fail the Windows Application Certification Toolkit (WACK). It’s time for a little update, since part of what I wrote is no longer necessary, and some things […]
Intro After fellow MVP (and RD, although not fellow-) Philipp Bauknecht discovered a bug in my AMS HoloATC app while testing it on his HoloLens 2 (what lunatic runs HoloLenses with DE-DE settings anyway :P) I created a fix for that and submitted the fixed app to the Microsoft Store on Saturday January 12th. I […]
Intro Interaction with objects that are not simple shapes like cubes, spheres, capsules etc. poses some challenges. The Mixed Reality Toolkit 2 offers some great components, but they all require a top level collider. Now consider this helicopter: It consists of a lot of small objects. Default it does not even have a collider. You […]