Author: Chad Carter

Build 2017 HoloLens and Mixed Reality Sessions

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In case you weren’t aware, the Build conference from Microsoft is a premiere conference where many new technologies are announced. In 2011, Windows 8 was announced. In 2015, the HoloLens as announced.

I expect that today and tomorrow we will see great sessions all around HoloLens and Mixed Reality.

The video this weeks walks through finding and filtering the sessions you want to watch.

 

Here are the instructions in text form:

Head to http://channel9.msdn.com/ and go to the Events tab. Select Microsoft Build and then Build 2017.

Click the Filters button and under the Term search, enter either HoloLens or Mixed Reality and click Filter.

You should see between 13 and 16 different sessions that touch on the topic.

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HoloPaintball aka HoloLens Paintball

This week I created a little demo showing off the HoloLens handling shooting hundreds of paintballs and having them splat across the room.

It is pretty satisfying to watch. The HoloLens handled the task with ease!

It’s a short video. Take a look and leave me a comment on what you think.

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Tub of War Game by Martin aka Quill18 (Ludum Dare 38)

This weekend the Ludum Dare game jam and competition took place.

Due to too many other obligations I wasn’t able to take part, but I was able to watch a little while Martin created a great game by himself in just 48 hours. He did it live on Twitch, which apparently he has done for quite a while now.

I really like the idea of a timed jam which forces you to focus on just what is needed to get done.

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that a favorite book of mine is Essentialism. Everything comes with a tradeoff. Saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else – maybe even everything else.

When you are creating something under a time constraint, it forces you to think like an essentialist. You can only do a few things, so focus on them.

You can grab the source code and the executables on Martin’s site at http://quill18.com/ld38/

I made a quick video of me trying out the game Tub of War.

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Having Fun with HoloLens Particles

I’m heading out today to the East Coast Game Conference in Raleigh, but I wanted to get my weekly video out for you.

I’m working on particle systems for my upcoming master class over at LearnHoloLens.com and I decided to bring in an asset from the store and modify it to work on the HoloLens.

It worked well on the HoloLens, but the video is jerky because my machine was under a heavy load when streaming it from the device. I’ll make sure I come back to this and do a better video in the future.

I absolutely love getting great looking particle effects to run on the HoloLens.

Enjoy the video!

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