When you start to design for augmented and virtual reality, you discover problems that you have never encountered in the 2D world of a desktop computer or a phone. How do you interact with an object on your desktop? It is easy! Point a mouse onto it and double click. Done! How would you interact with a hologram projected in the middle of your room?
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When thinking of the user interfaces of the future, what comes to your mind? I immediately start thinking of Tony Stark interacting with an epic holographic user interface while talking to Jarvis. Apparently this future is not very far.
As promised in the post from the beginning of July, I am going to share what I learned so far about HoloLens capabilities while hacking on an emulator during Microsoft //oneweek hackathon.
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July is Microsoft’s //oneweek celebration, when the full-time employees spend a week hacking apps that they would like to work on. I could not pass this opportunity, and decided to learn something that I have always been curious about: augmented reality and Microsoft HoloLens programming.
What is augmented reality? What are holograms?
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