Welcome to Microsoft HoloLens By Example; join me on a journey through this book to learn about Microsoft's HoloLens device and more generally, mixed reality (MR) applications, through a series of exciting example, each uncovering an important concept related to developing mixed reality applications, including:
- Understanding the environment and context of the user through image recognition and spatial mapping
- Projecting and placing holograms into the real world
- Allowing the user to interact with holograms using a variety interaction modes including gaze, gesture and voice
- Sharing the experience across devices
We will start our journey by briefly peering into the past to see how our relationship with computers has changed ...