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Designing Your App

The HoloLens is a great device. Everyone who puts it on is amazed. I always ensure that I explain how to use the device in detail before I allow people to put it on--the moment they wear it, they stop listening and are in awe of the experience.

Of course, once the initial wonder of seeing things float in mid-air in front of them wears off, they want to use apps and the experience should match the first moment of magic. Therefore, we need to ensure that our apps are just as good and deliver on that promise. To do that, we have to know how to design for the HoloLens. Guess what--this is what we will talk about right now!

Key benefits

Create immersive augmented reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens from scratch

Leverage the powerful HoloLens sensors to interact with real-world motions and gestures and make your app life-like

Explore the powerful Unity 5 SDK along with the Windows Unified platform to get the most out of your HoloLens app

Description

HoloLens, Microsoft’s innovative augmented reality headset, overlaps holograms into a user’s vision of their environment. Your ideas are closer to becoming real when you can create and work with holograms in relation to the world around you. If you are dreaming beyond virtual worlds, beyond screens, beyond pixels, and want to take a big leap in the world of augmented reality, then this is the book you want. Starting off with brainstorming and the design process, you will take your first steps in creating your application for HoloLens. You will learn to add gestures and write an app that responds to verbal commands before gradually moving on creating sounds in the app and placing them in a 3D space. You will then communicate between devices in the boundaries of the UWP model.

What you will learn

Design an app for HoloLens that is feasible and attractive to use

Add gestures and interact with them

Create sounds in the app and place them in a 3D space

Use voice generation and voice recognition to make your apps more lifelike

Interact with the physical environment to place holograms on top of physical objects

Compare HoloLens with the other products and know how to use its strengths

Use assets from third parties to enrich our app

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