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Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform: Explore Windows 10 Native, IoT, HoloLens, and Xamarin
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Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform: Explore Windows 10 Native, IoT, HoloLens, and Xamarin

by Ayan Chatterjee
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 26m
English
Apress
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© Ayan Chatterjee 2017

Ayan Chatterjee, Building Apps for the Universal Windows Platform, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2629-2_7

7. Wearables

Ayan Chatterjee1 

(1)Swindon, Wiltshire, UK

Previous chapters covered using Windows via the traditional mouse and keyboard combo, touch gestures, and the IoT. Now let’s venture into wearable devices. Wearable devices are devices you wear everyday–on your wrist as in fitness bands or your head as in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality headsets. In other words, these devices attach to your body. You will first look into 3D and how 3D works. After you have learned the underlying principles and theories, we will discuss how to build holographic applications using Visual Studio.

A few decades ago, if you wore something like ...

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