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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Simplygon in Azure

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

Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track Sessions

Following my intro post to Future Decoded AR/VR track here is the session information (see https://futuredecoded.microsoft.com/technical-day/ for updates and further information). A huge thanks to VISR VR and Vuforia. Building Virtual Worlds Abstract: Building virtual worlds presents new challenges to…

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Reasons To 2016

Sketch by Caroline Vermeulen This week I headed down to Brighton to speak at Reasons to be Creative for the first time. Meeting Mike Brondbjerg there reminded me of this project http://peted.azurewebsites.net/ms-band-server/ which connected data from a Microsoft Band to…

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MS Health Bot Tutorial

This is a step-by-step guide to writing an Bot in C# using the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET template. You will need to have collected some sleep data using a Microsoft Band and have had that synchronised up to the…

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Windows Phone Mobile VR Update

Its over a year now since I published these two blog posts: Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D) which discussed some introductory topics around mobile…

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metro background audio c# (release preview)

Peter Daukintis I have just updated the sample I created for this previous post metro background audio c# (consumer preview). I have re-jigged the code to work with Win 8 Release Preview and have spruced the ui up a little…

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Nokia Lumia 800 Developer Gift

A few months back Nokia announced their intention to provide developers with windows phone hardware in the shape of 25000 Lumia 800s (see http://www.winrumors.com/nokia-giving-away-25000-lumia-800-windows-phones-to-developers/). The gifts are available under the following criteria: "Currently a Nokia Developer Champion or Nokia Launchpad…

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RIA Services Development Tips

by Peter Daukintis Service Calls Use Fiddler to diagnose the WCF service call traffic! Fiddler won’t monitor localhost by default so see the information here http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/Help/hookup.asp#Q-LocalTraffic to get this working. I replaced localhost with ipv4.fiddler in the url and then…

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