Microsoft HoloLens Developer???s Guide

A Complete Guide to HoloLens Application Development

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Dennis Vroegop

Paid access

|Jul 2025

E-Book €30.99Institutions €130.95

Description

Transform the ways you communicate, create, collaborate, and explore using Microsoft HoloLens

Key Features

Create immersive augmented reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens from scratch
Leverage the powerful HoloLens sensors to interact with real-world motions and gestures and make your app life-like
Explore the powerful Unity 5 SDK along with the Windows Unified platform to get the most out of your HoloLens app

Book Description

HoloLens, Microsoft’s innovative augmented reality headset, overlaps holograms into a user’s vision of their environment. Your ideas are closer to becoming real when you can create and work with holograms in relation to the world around you. If you are dreaming beyond virtual worlds, beyond screens, beyond pixels, and want to take a big leap in the world of augmented reality, then this is the book you want.

Starting off with brainstorming and the design process, you will take your first steps in creating your application for HoloLens. You will learn to add gestures and write an app that responds to verbal commands before gradually moving on creating sounds in the app and placing them in a 3D space. You will then communicate between devices in the boundaries of the UWP model.

What you will learn

Design an app for HoloLens that is feasible and attractive to use
Add gestures and interact with them
Create sounds in the app and place them in a 3D space
Use voice generation and voice recognition to make your apps more lifelike
Interact with the physical environment to place holograms on top of physical objects
Compare HoloLens with the other products and know how to use its strengths
Use assets from third parties to enrich our app

Who this book is for

If you are a developer who wants to create augmented reality apps for the Microsoft HoloLens platform, then this is the book for you. Coding experience with C# is assumed.