HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity

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…

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mixed reality real-time translator

Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentences into another language and return not only a final audio…

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Future Decoded 2017 Mixed Reality

It was great to see all of the mixed reality content at this years Future Decoded event and was also fun to take part with a couple of technical ‘deep dive’ sessions with my colleague Mike Taulty: Bootstrapping Your Windows…

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HoloLens Intro – Resources to Get Started

(Originally posted here https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2016/10/12/hololens-is-available-to-purchase-for-developers-and-enterprise-customers-in-the-uk-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/) HoloLens is available to purchase for developers and enterprise customers in the UK – here’s everything you need to know to get started Although I work for Microsoft I am not on the HoloLens engineering team…

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Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track

Every 10-15 years we see fundamental paradigm shifts in computing; we’ve seen Desktop computing, Web, Mobile and…well we are seeing the rise of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and from a human-computer interface perspective the rise of augmented, virtual and mixed…

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