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9. Developing with Unity and Visual Studio

Allen G. Taylor

(1)Oregon City, Oregon, USA

Building holographic applications is a new endeavor, as it was pioneered by Microsoft HoloLens developers. As such, there are no software tools that have been specifically designed to build and deploy such applications. However, 3D holographic applications are similar in many ways to 3D computer games.

The major difference is that holograms really are 3D objects located in 3D space, while 3D computer games look like they are three dimensional, but in reality are confined to a 2D screen. Because of their similarity, tools that have been developed for creating ...

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