Day 9–Vik And Surrounds
After crashing hard and a good night’s sleep we woke to a beautiful morning. First we headed to Reynifjara Beach to suss out the area. Light isn’t good there in the morning and there’s nobody in sight. The sand is … Continued
Day 8–The Golden Circle
Today was a massive day – lots to see and a long way to drive. We’d made the right sacrifice as the weather gods were in our favour today. We had clear skies and amazing light. We picked up our … Continued
Day 7–Bye Helsinki, Hello Reykjavik
I tried really hard for some night shots last night but by the time the sun went down and was finally dark I could barely keep my eyes open. Luckily I was wide awake at 4am. I wanted to see … Continued
Day 6–Wandering the streets and Tech Excellence Finland
After forcing myself to sleep at midnight I was awake at 4am. Eventually we gave in and had first breakfast cleaning off the food we’d bought during the week. Handwashed our remaining dirty clothes in the hope they dry before … Continued
Day 5–Helsinki
After waking up early, realising the internet was out and eventually going back to sleep we had a lazy morning of eating through the rest of our non-transportable food and generally packing before heading off to Helsinki. Great run with … Continued
Day 4–Spin around the Archipelago
After another bad night of sleep with a throbbing arm I was wide awake for 3:30am. Switching sides had made it a lot better meaning my good side got bumped in the night. Good time to do the previous day’s … Continued
Day 3–Rainy Day In Turku
As we settled into our cabin it started to rain. It rained most of the night and the early hours of the morning. After a full day of being out of my arm brace and battling for bed space in … Continued
Day 2–Cruisy Drive to Turku
After crashing hard, unsurprisingly I woke up crazy early. Luckily I packed a bag of lollies we quickly devoured at 2am. We have heaps of time to kill before we head to Turku so lots of light napping till about … Continued
Day 1– To Helsinki
Our journey began with a delayed flight. Many thanks to Cathay Pacific for the sms around 6pm to tell us our flight was delayed till 2am so we could alter our pickup and spend a little less time at the … Continued
Unofficial VS2017 Mixed Reality Project Template
For those that are missing the HoloLens template in VS 2017 on of the awesome Emerging Experiences MVPs Dwight has updated the VS2015 one for you. Get it here.
Adelaide .Net–Reality Check–HoloLens wrap up
Last night I showed of HoloLens to the Adelaide .Net User Group. We had a decent number of people hear about VR/AR and MR but I think they were all keen to check out the device. After going through the … Continued
Reality Check : HoloLens with Aberfoyle Park High
Today was an early-ish start as I’m off to Adelaide. While I’m here I’m meeting a few different places/people and first on my list is Aberfoyle Park High School. Thanks to David Gardiner, I was welcomed to present to the … Continued
Ignite Australia 2017 Wrap-up
Last week I had the pleasure to present at Ignite Australia. I’ve missed the last few as it’s coincided with overseas trips so moving to February worked out well. I presented Lessons from Hollywood: Building the interactions of tomorrow today. … Continued
Creating a Diprotodon for HoloLens–Dippy is Born
I recently presented at Ignite Australia on Lessons from Hollywood: Building the interactions of tomorrow today . For that talk and for fun I wanted to create something from scratch rather than use assets someone else made. Now I have … Continued
Using the C for Airtap in HoloLens
When I first used HoloLens almost two years ago I was taught the air tap. I looked a lot like the picture above. It worked for me and I was content. A few months ago, I got my own device … Continued
Fixing "Something went wrong" page with error ADDriverStoreAccessNonLocalException
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 … Continued
Using Face API to Enhance My Travel Booking Evaluation
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 … Continued
Using Sentiment Analysis To Enhance My Travel Booking Evaluation
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 … Continued
Brisbane .Net–Reality Check Wrap-up
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 … Continued
Presenting on HoloLens – “Reality Check” Brisbane .Net UG 17 Feb
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 … Continued
getting the Vuforia Sample App to work with HoloLens
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 … Continued
Quick Reset of Unity Transforms
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 … Continued
HoloLens–Getting the Companion app when in Aus
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 … Continued
DDD 2016 Wrap-up
DDD Brisbane is done and dusted for another year. After 5 years at QUT this year we grew yet again and took on a new venue. The lovely Advanced Engineering Building at UQ. At 6:30 this crew started arriving to … Continued
HoloLens–First Reactions
After getting a real HoloLens I thought the best thing was to take it out into the world to meet some real people. Normally I’d spend some time to put together a nice presentation. I hadn’t had time so I … Continued
Factory resetting your HoloLens
After playing with the emulator for awhile I finally caved and bought a real device. While doing the initial setup I got stuck at the network connection screen. At first I thought this was due to the hotel internet needing … Continued
Day 26 Humberstone
I booked us a rental car so we could go to Humberstone for the morning. The Thrifty was a few blocks away and we picked up our little car. It’s manual (neither of us has driven a manual for almost … Continued
Day 25 – EarthQuake
After a good sleep-in after yesterday’s long bus trip we went for a wander around the town and to look for some lunch. There’s a long ‘boardwalk’ along the coast. There’s a bunch of construction going on all along here … Continued
Day 24 The Wheels on the Bus Go Round…
Today we say goodbye to the canyons and desert as it is our bus trip to Iquique. We arrived nice and early at the bus stop at San Pedro de Atacama. The bus arrived, we put our luggage on, … Continued
Day 24–ANZ Outage and Bus Change Fun
Sleep-in after yesterday. Tomorrow we head off but not till 9:30pm and have to check out at 12 so we’re trying to find options to keep us amused. Then I notice we could get an alternate bus but it’s not … Continued