Month: March 2017

This Week on Windows: We’ve got the Rebel Alliance, we’re showing the latest Windows 10 PCs with Windows Hello, and we’ve got a scary good deal on Resident Evil 7. Specific topics covered this week include:

• Windows Hello PC round up
• Turbo Tax
• Resident Evil 7 sale
• Rogue One: A Star Wars story
• TV spotlight: The Americans
• Originals week – top picks for the weekend
• March madness app
• Did you know: Active hours

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Speaking to some of the best and brightest student developers at Imagine Cup, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella once said, “All of you represent that passion, that ability to dream the impossible and make it possible.” The Imagine Cup embraces this principle as the company’s global student innovation competition. Now celebrating its 15th anniversary, the competition represents Microsoft’s enduring commitment to supporting young developers and their drive to create the next … Read more »

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After three months of some excellent offers through Games with Gold, featuring Layers of Fear, Evolve, and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, we’re keeping the proverbial train moving into April with four critically-acclaimed games — two Xbox One and two Xbox 360 games that can be played through Backward Compatibility — to add to your Xbox library. The immersive action-adventure game Ryse: Son of Rome will be available April 1 – 30, followed by The Walking Dead: Season 2 from April 16 – May 15 that continues the tragic story of the young Clementine in the zombie apocalypse. Then on Xbox 360,… Continue reading Assassins, Zombies, and War are Coming to April’s Games with Gold→

In this session we cover telemetry and learning from users for bots built with the Microsoft Bot Framework. [00:20] Bot Framework considerations for Telemetry [03:38] DEMO – Telemetry in a Node.js bot[07:27] DEMO – Telemetry in… Continue reading Telemetry for the Bot Framework | DevOps for the Bot Framework→

Docker is now fully sported on Windows 10. In this episode we’ll see what it takes to avoid installing RabbitMQ locally and, instead, use a Windows container. Keeping RabbitMQ in a container allows standing up a cluster on one physical machine, gr… Continue reading ASP.NET Monsters Episode 95: Creating a RabbitMQ Windows Container | ASP.NET Monsters→

Saw this Hello World from the awesome All-In-One Code Framework team (aka “The Code Sample Super Stars”)  and thought it might help you all get started…

How to create a Hello World 3D holographic app with Unity

This sample demonstrates how to create a Hello World 3D holographic app with Unity

How to create a Hello World 3D holographic app with Unity

Sample prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
• Windows 10 (10.0.10586 version or later)
• HoloLens Emulator
• Unity HoloLens Technical Preview

Building the sample

• Open the solution file CSUnity3DHolographic.sln
• Select x86 in the Solution Platforms menu from the Standard toolbar
• Select HoloLens Emulator on the Debug Target menu from the Standard toolbar
• Select CSUnity3DHolographic project and set it as StartUp Project
• Press F7 or Build > Build Solution to build the sample.

Running the sample

• Do one of the following:
• Click the Start Debugging button on the toolbar.
• Click Start Debugging on the Debug menu.
• Press F5.

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After finishing all these steps, you can debug the project with the HoloLens Emulator.

More information

• Install the tools
• Create a Holographic app from Unity step by step
• Tutorials for Unity
• 2D HoloLens Sample

Project Information URL: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/How-to-create-a-Hello-bae9df25

Project Source URL: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/How-to-create-a-Hello-bae9df25

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In this presentation, we discuss the new APIs and tools for Windows 10 developersto create universal holographic applications. Learn how your DirectX applicationcan target both virtual and augmented reality devices. Applications that visualizecontent i… Continue reading Windows Holographic Rendering: One SDK to Target VR and AR Ecosystems | GDC 2017→

A key component of audio immersion is sound localization: sounds appearingto come from a specific position in space. In both virtual and augmented worlds,spatial perception can be a critical component to successful user interactions.This talk covers ne… Continue reading Introducing Spatial Audio Capabilities for Xbox and Windows | GDC 2017→