Xbox One Controller–HoloLens Edition & HoloHack in Atlanta

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Around August of last year, I ran a contest to give away an Xbox Controller that was themed like the HoloLens. I even had“HoloLens Edition” engraved on the controller – unfortunately, it doesn’t show up in this picture, but it does on the website where you can order your own!

The winner of the controller was none other than Jason Odom, who at the time was creating a lot of YouTube videos around the HoloLens. Since then, he has created a HoloLens book (HoloLens Beginner Guide) and his is constantly writing articles for Next Reality. Make sure to check them out.

Anyway, he is going to be at the HoloHack in Atlanta, and it reminded me about this controller. I wanted to give you the link to the design in case you were interested in purchasing it.

I’ll be heading to Atlanta to meet up with Jason, and my fellow HoloLens consultant James Ashley, another HoloLens dev and Microsoft MVP, as well as some others that will be there.

If you are in or around Atlanta, you should definitely drop by. I’d love to say hi!

Here is the link to the controller: http://chd.me/xboxhe

Dynamically Placed Items with Spatial Understanding

In my premium membership site over at LearnHoloLens.com, I’ve been working on some Spatial Understanding content for my students.

In fact, there was so much to discuss with Spatial Understanding that I had to create two different master classes on the subject. The first master class was released in May. This laid the foundation. The second master class will be released in a couple of weeks.

I was super fortunate to get this excellent testimonial from one of my members, James. You should really check out James’ YouTube channel.

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Here’s a little demo of placing a couple of objects in my basement.

Want a HoloLens and a $100K and a Unity Pro 12 month subscription?

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Yes, Microsoft and Unity are giving away cold hard cash as well as subscriptions to Unity Pro.

Oh, yeah … and 3 HoloLens devices!

1st place gets $100K + HoloLens Dev Edition + Unity Pro 12 month subscription

2nd place gets $30K + HoloLens Dev Edition + Unity Pro 12 month subscription

3rd place gets $20K + HoloLens Dev Edition + Unity Pro 12 month subscription

Plus 5 Honorable mentions each get a Unity Pro 12 month subscription.

The contest began on 5/10.

If you receive my emails, then you already know about the contest. If you don’t get my emails, today would be a good day to start 🙂

Simply opt-in on my About page or on the Ultimate HoloLens Resource List page.

Submissions for your app idea need to be in by June 10, 2017.

Then, just 6 days after that… Unity and Microsoft will announce the finalists.

Finalists should build out the app and submit it by October 30.

Winners will be announced in November.

For all the details on what you need to do and how to submit, you can head over to the Unity site.

It’s time to get those creative juices flowing…

Order Your Mixed Reality Headsets

During Build 2017, Microsoft opened up the ability to order the Acer and HP Mixed Reality devices on the Microsoft Store.

Order the Acer Mixed Reality Developer Edition Device

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Order the HP Mixed Reality Developer Edition Device

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I already ordered mine!