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In Episode 127 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and Andrew Coates talk with Michael Zlatkovsky and Bhargav Krishna about the new Script Lab Office add-in.
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Learn how to get the most from your data — and the Microsoft tools you use every day — at the Microsoft Data Insights Summit, the company’s user conference for business analysts. Now in its second year, the event is packed with strong technical content… Continue reading Meet 1:1 with a Microsoft expert at Microsoft Data Insights Summit – book your appointment today!
In 2009, Halo Wars fans picked up their trusty Xbox 360 controllers, amassed huge armies of UNSC and Covenant fighting forces, rained MAC rounds on enemy bases and spammed ODST troops into battle. Eight years later, the trials and tribulations of battle can be relived again with the standalone launch of Halo Wars: Definitive Edition today, available from the Xbox Store, Windows Store and Steam for $19.99! The original Halo Wars was special for many reasons – its story of conflict between the UNSC Spirit of Fire and Covenant took place more than two decades before the Master Chief landed… Continue reading Halo Wars: Definitive Edition Available Today for Xbox, Windows and Steam
When our creative director told me that this Warframe update was to be based on music, I knew the sound team was going to be challenged like it had never been before. After all, this was to be the first time players could create songs in the game. This was the spec: “Octavia is to be a unique Warframe that’s able to play songs that the player creates. It will use elements of these songs as her power to fight enemies.” My first reaction was, “I have no idea how we’re going to make this work…” But, because this was such… Continue reading Creating the Sound for Warframe’s Octavia Anthem Update, Available Now on Xbox One
This Week on Windows: just in time for the Windows 10 Creators Update we’ve got a host of new app partners for Surface Dial, Forza gets a new car pack and embarks on the 3rd season of its Racing Championship – all thanks to a Porsche partnership. Plus, we give you tips and tricks to getting the most out of Microsoft Edge. Specifics covered in this episode include the following:
“FastTrack provided useful scenarios, best practices and other resources that helped us create an internal process designed to ensure seamless Office 365 migration, onboarding and adoption.” —Read the post from John Hornby, chief operating officer of The NEC Group.
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Office 365 ProPlus delivers cloud-connected and always up-to-date versions of our most valuable enterprise apps. Today, we’re making three important announcements related to ProPlus: changes to the Office 365 system requirements; improvements to the ProPlus update model, including alignment with Windows 10; and new tools and programs to manage ProPlus application compatibility.
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Today’s project could be called the must do project for Mixed Reality…
James Cameron’s 1984 film The Terminator introduced many science-fiction idioms we now take for granted. One of the most persistent is the thermal head-up-display (HUD) shot that allows the audience to see the world through the eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 character. In design circles, it is one of the classic user interfaces that fans frequently try to recreate both as a learning tool and as a challenge.
In today’s post, you’ll learn how to recreate this iconic interface for the HoloLens. To sweeten the task, you’ll also hook up this interface to Microsoft Cognitive Services to perform an analysis of objects in the room, face detection and even some Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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The first step happens to be figuring out how to recreate the T-800 thermal HUD display.
Locking the HUD into place
By default, the Canvas will be locked to your world space. You want it to be locked to the screen, however, as it is in the Terminator movies.
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La vie en rose
Terminator view is supposed to use heat vision. It places a red hue on everything in the scene. In order to create this effect, you are going to play a bit with shaders.
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Making the text dynamic
To hook up the HUD to Cognitive Services, first orchestrate a way to make the text dynamic. Select your HUD object. Then, in the Inspector window, click on Add Component -> New Script and name your script “Hud.”
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Conclusion
In this post, you discovered how to recreate a cool visual effect from an iconic sci-fi movie. You also found out how to call Microsoft Cognitive Services from Unity in order to make a richer recreation.
You can extend the capabilities of the Terminator Vision app even further by taking the text you find through OCR and calling Cognitive Services to translate it into another language using the Translator API. You could then use the Bing Speech API to read the text back to you in both the original language and the translated language. This, however, goes beyond the original goal of recreating the Terminator Vision scenario from the 1984 James Cameron film and starts sliding into the world of personal assistants, which is another topic for another time.
Project Information URL: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/03/06/building-terminator-vision-hud-hololens
Project Source URL: https://github.com/gdfonda/Terminator-Vision
