NYVR Dev Meetup - January

NYVR Dev Meetup is back! We have a great meetup this month - Nick Landry from Microsoft will be giving a talk on creating mixed reality environments for Hololens.

Building Mixed Reality Experiences for Microsoft HoloLens in Unity

Microsoft HoloLens is the world’s first self-contained, untethered head-mounted holographic computing device for Mixed Reality (MR). Mixed Reality blends 3D holographic content into your physical world, giving your holograms real-world context and scale, allowing you to interact with both digital content and the world around you. HoloLens lets you go beyond the screen, with Holograms that let you visualize and work with your digital content in relation to your real world, unlocking new insights and capabilities.

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This session is your introduction to building 3D Mixed Reality applications and games for Windows Holographic using C#, Visual Studio and Unity. We’ll start with a quick recap of the HoloLens device and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), and talk about interacting with a holograms using gaze, gestures and voice. Next, we’ll dive into building 3D apps for Windows Holographic in Unity with C#, using the HoloToolkit for Unity, exporting our project to Visual Studio and running it on either a HoloLens device or the HoloLens Emulator. Science fiction becomes science fact, and Unity & UWP developers are at the front of this revolution. Come learn how to get started and build your journey into a world of holograms you create.

Nick Landry – Sr. Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Nick Landry (@ActiveNick) is a mobility pioneer, former entrepreneur and Microsoft Technical Evangelist specializing in cross-platform mobile app development. Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, and was a 10-year Microsoft MVP awarded on Mobile Development. With 25 years of professional experience, Nick is a certified developer and software architect by trade and specializes in Cross-Platform Mobility, Computer Speech & Bots, IoT, Cloud, HoloLens and Mobile Game Development. He is an active blogger, occasional author, avid gamer, loving husband and proud father.