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Joost van Schaik

Senior Mixed Reality Software Architect, Mixed Reality & Windows Development MVP. Talks about Mixed/Augmented Reality Cross platform MR development, HoloLens 2, Magic Leap 2, Quest, Unity, .NET, Azure

Make a 3D HoloLens app launcher appear above the launcher controls

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A very, very small tip this time. In HoloLens 2 - or actually Windows Mixed Reality - you can create these awesome 3D launchers that look a lot better than t...

Making only one entry of a Flag Enum selectable in the Unity Editor

1 minute read

Another small trick, easily reusable. Attentive users might have noticed something odd in my recent blog post about Scene Understanding. You can assign a Sur...

Using Scene Understanding in the Unity Editor

1 minute read

A short tip this time, but nevertheless one that merits its own post. Scene Understanding is an awesome feature, but it would be nice if you could use a sca...

Making Surface Magnetism work on specific surfaces by sorting Scene Understanding surfaces into separate layers

5 minute read

In a previous post I showed how you can use Surface Magnetism to make an object ‘stick’ to the Spatial Mesh while placing it. But what if you want to use onl...

Placing holograms on any surface using the MRTK surface magnetism

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After revisiting my good old FloorFinder by request of a community member, I started playing around with Surface Magnetism because one of my colleagues start...