This is the first part of a series see https://peted.azurewebsites.net/hololens-end-to-end-in-unity/ See https://peted.azurewebsites.net/hololens-intro-resources-to-get-started/ for links to get all of the tools to get started with HoloLens development. Also, for this post I will be using Blender for Windows (I used version…
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…
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…
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…
HoloToolkit Build Window
Now you have a shortcut to start the HoloLens emulator (see http://peted.azurewebsites.net/start-hololens-emulator-without-visual-studio/) it would be nice to be able to build and deploy without necessarily opening up Visual Studio. Now, don’t get me wrong; Visual Studio is one of my…
Start HoloLens Emulator without Visual Studio
If you find yourself hitting memory allocation issues for the HoloLens emulator (like this) or you want to run the emulator on a separate machine to that which you are running Visual Studio on it can be useful to have…
Democratising 3D Content Creation
Since returning my main focus to the fields of Augmented and Virtual reality I have experienced more light-bulb moments than at any time in my previous career. They have lead me to thinking deeply on the future of human computer…
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…
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…
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (http://peted.azurewebsites.net/fake-microsoft-band/) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I have been working on alongside my colleague at Microsoft David Gristwood.We set the project up initially as a learning opportunity…