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…
I was working with a sample that I had previously written using the Microsoft Auth Library which was originally used as an example of delegated auth on HoloLens but I recently extended the sample to also show ‘device code flow’…
Back in 2016 at the Microsoft Future Decoded event I gave the first HoloLens developer talk in the UK. This was an exciting time for me personally as was the culmination of many years of working on software engineering and…
Microsoft Edge has support for WebVR as you can see here https://caniuse.com/#search=webvr The support across the main browsers looks like this at the time of writing but what is not captured here is that in order to use WebVR on…
Following the initial intro post see http://peted.azurewebsites.net/gltf-directx/ I have written a few follow-up posts to highlight some of my learnings from writing this sample. This one is the final post and contains topics I thought were interesting but didn’t warrant…
Following the initial intro post see http://peted.azurewebsites.net/gltf-directx/ I’m going to write a few follow up posts to highlight some of my learnings from writing this sample. This one is on the design of the code sample. All of the code…
Following the initial intro post see http://peted.azurewebsites.net/gltf-directx/ I’m going to write a few follow up posts to highlight some of my learnings from writing this sample glTF glTF has been designed with some fundamental principles in mind; Physically-based rendering Often…
3D File Formats As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to wonder how the existing infrastructure for 3D graphics would bear the load of ubiquitous…
Just a quick post as I am looking at a useful Nuget package Microsoft.GLTF.cpp and wanted to note down my quick experiment with it. For an unrelated project I wrote a c++ parser for the GLB format (binary version of…