Recently we saw a change to our outlook.com and it upgraded our accounts. My account went through fine and I see the layout on the right. One of our other accounts however didn’t. Took awhile to notice..no new emails were arriving and sending emails weren’t working. Odd. Then when you tried outlook.com all we saw…
Yesterday I analysed the sentiment of a potential travel booking for a trip. I looked at the data a bit further. For each of the reviewers there was a bit more information available. The had the review distribution, the home town, age bracket and gender. This could help me further decide if I want to…
Over the Xmas break we spent some time in Falls Creek. We were driving so we could take our bikes, clothes, nutrition etc with us. It was a bit too far for us to do the drive in one hit (event with 2 drivers) so we decided to do it in two hits. The first…
Tonight was the Brisbane .Net User Group where Dave was kind enough to introduce me. There were so many options for what to show and talk about I had to step back and think that most people will not have even seen a HoloLens in the flesh before so went right back to basics. I’d…
I’m presenting at this month’s Brisbane .Net UG on HoloLens. Details: Reality Check Reality – Virtual, Augmented and Mixed. Join Bronwen – Microsoft Emerging Experiences MVP and get your reality in check. This session will cover the different types of reality experiences and focus on the mixed reality of HoloLens. Bronwen will show you the…
Vuforia have put together a sample app so you can have a go in HoloLens. To get it going quickly I downloaded the vuforia samples eyewear 6.2.6 under the Digital Eyewear section and unzipped. I imported this package and the latest holotoolkit package (because the setup and build is idiot-proof more than anything else). I…
I was working through Rick’s Creative Coding with Unity sessions and one of those nice little tips he gave was how to quickly reset your transform properties. Instead of painfully setting them all to 0’s each time : Select the little cog menu on the far right of the transform section SelectReset
One of the apps that can be useful when demoing and generally seeing what’s going on in the HoloLens is the companion app. The problem it seems for those of us in Australia and presumably other non-US countries is once you get to it in the store (as the search doesn’t yield results) is you…
