Augmented Reality for Developers

Adding HoloLensCamera to the Scene

To configure Vuforia to use the HoloLens camera, there are a few things to do. First, we will add a HoloLens camera to the scene, then we'll bind it to the AR Camera as shown ahead. Refer to the Camera in Unity documentation from Microsoft at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/holographic/camera_in_unity.

1. Select GameObject | Camera.
2. In Inspector, rename it to HoloLensCamera.

 

3. Set Clear Flags to Solid Color.
4. Set Background to black (0,0,0,0).
5. The HoloLens docs recommend setting Clipping Planes | Near to 0.85 and that may be a best practice for comfort, but I find it constraining working in my small office.
6. Reset its Transform Position to (0,0,0).

The resulting camera settings are shown in ...