Hi !
During the past few weeks I’ve writing on some samples to create Hololens Apps using Unity3D and other assets outside of th HoloToolkit world. So, now it’s official the HoloToolkit change and I can start to share some information on this. Long story short,
HoloToolkit is getting a big update and now it’s called Mixed Reality Toolkit.
This new version includes some big changes. I really like the official support to Visual Studio 2017 and Unity3D 2017.1; and if we take a look at the road map, we can see the dates when future versions of Unity3D are going to be supported (view references). The main architecture of a Hololens Apps is not changing, however, now that we have some new devices in the Mixed Reality family, the way to create Apps is a little more complex. (still is a very funny one!)
Like in the previous version, we have 2 flavors of the product: the generic version focused on Mixed Reality and the specific one for Unity3D. Maybe in the near future we will have a set of tools also for URHOSharp and Unreal Engine.
I’ll write a little more about this in the near future, mostly on the big changes and new features included in this “new toolkit”.
Happy Holocoding!
Greetings @ Toronto
El Bruno
References
- GitHub, Mixed Reality Toolkit Unity
- GitHub, Mixed Reality Toolkit
El Bruno, my posts
- Device Portal Basic Features for Developer
- How to Import the HoloToolkit Unity
- How to place a Hologram using AirTap and HoloToolkit
- Creating a menu with options with HoloToolkit
- Using voice commands to display a menu with HoloToolkit
- How to create a 3D text always visible using HoloToolkit
- How to create a HUD (3D text always visible without HoloToolkit)
- How to detect hands using HoloToolkit
- Windows 10, Xbox One Controller, Bluetooth and some lessons learned
- How to use Fire Buttons actions with an XBoxOne Controller
- HoloToolkit compiled packages for Unity3D in GitHub
- How to detect AirTap and Click actions using HoloToolkit
- Detect user hand interactions using #HoloToolkit
- Moving and rotating Holograms using an XBoxOne Controller
- Spatial Understanding vs Spatial Mapping, and a tutorial on how to use them
- Spatial Mapping, tutorial to search for simple surfaces, like a 1×1 tile on the floor
- Alternative to fix the Tap to Place and World Anchor issue, until the official release of HoloToolkit for Visual Studio 2017 and Unity3D 5.6
- How to save a #3D model of the environment around the device
- How to improve the App deployment time from Visual Studio 2017 to Hololens using an USB cable
- How to use the Developer Portal when the device is connected via USB
- Lunar Module, new Sample App from Mixed Reality Design Labs with some very cool tools and prefabs for Unity3D development
- Tutorial to use buttons dialogs and more with MRDesign Labs
- How to select a Hologram, change the size or position and more using MRDesign Labs
El Bruno 
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