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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today was a long day. We did a big tour of some of the main sites. First main stop was at the old bell tower and we saw the nun from the church across the road climb the ladder and … Continued
Saturday morning we had a bit of a sleep in after lots of travel it starts to catch up with you. We have the biggest bed I’ve ever seen. It’s like sleeping in a bed by yourself the other person … Continued
This morning we were feeling a bit drained from 3 days being tossed around a 4WD and we had a big journey ahead so we slept in, found the 24h House channel and generally chilled. In the afternoon we said … Continued
Monday we started our 3 day tour of some of the volcanoes in Ecuador. After a late start due to communication issues we drive to Antisana. First up is a hike – walking at this altitude really hurts and you … Continued
Last night we went for a bit of a wander for dinner. The place seemed eerily abandoned. The police had started taping a few of the cross streets off for some reason. Found a steak place that we had to … Continued
We went in search of high places in Quito. It’s not hard when you’re already at 2800m but we wanted a good look at the city. We’re near old town which has a lot of old buildings and most of … Continued
This morning had a fairly early start with a 6am taxi, a ferry to Baltra, a bus to the airport and a flight to Quito. Annoyingly you “have” to be at the airport 90 mins before the flight even though … Continued
After sitting around on a boat for a week doing sweet FA I thought it was a good idea to go for a bit of a ride while we had the chance. We’d spotted a bike hire place whose bikes … Continued
This morning we woke to rain, so rolled back over and waited for our 8am breakfast to be delivered. After a few hours the sun came out so we decided to go for a stroll to Tortuga Bay. After a … Continued