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
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
Hololens for Everyone (us and canada only)
Great news for everyone that wanted a Hololens and couldn’t get past the application form stage. The team announced today general availability of up to 5 devices from the store. Only catch is it is still only available to those … Continued
HoloLens–Hologrphic Academy Experience
So today was the most AWESOME day! When I first saw the videos of HoloLens early this year I knew I HAD to come to Build to see it. I was so fortunate to be able to attend the Holographic … Continued