I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been a while since I have given any talks at all, largely due to job…
What’s the first thing that anyone creating any enterprise app will need to work out? **Auth**. You can’t really create an app that will actually be used in a real scenario without having thought this through. Embedding access keys into…
Sample Code Jump straight to the Github repo here I recently required the functionality of creating a single, persistent local spatial anchor on HoloLens2. The purpose is to provide stability and a persistent real-world location for a hierarchy of 3d…
Introduction It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar with the capabilities of the application but also because they may not be accustomed to…
Each time I wanted to create a HoloLens 2 Unreal Engine project I found myself recreating a blank level, setting up a GameMode and configuring the project. Like any programmer doing anything twice that can be automated is unpalatable, so……
I wrote a [previous blog post](http://peted.azurewebsites.net/hololensoptimising-with-simplygon/) about Simplygon a few years ago and the idea of optimising 3D meshes to enable running on a low powered device such as a HoloLens or mobile phone has cropped up on a number of occasions since. The content in the more recent projects have the additional requirement of being loaded into an app dynamically when requested by the app user
Whilst recently experimenting with the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity vNext for HoloLens app development The vNext version of the toolkit will be a requirement for HoloLens2 development so this would be a good time to start investigating if you…
Following the Unity announcement about deprecating the .NET backend I have been slowly turning my attention towards using IL2CPP instead which some time in the future will be the only option for Unity HoloLens development. Of course, there are supported…