DotNetByExample - The Next Generation

Joost van Schaik

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

Manipulating holograms using the MRTK Hand Physics service

4 minute read

One of the great things that makes HoloLens 2 special is hand tracking, and the fact you can actually touch and move holograms. There are several nice compon...

Correct setup of OpenXR in a HoloLens 2 project including Holographic Remoting

1 minute read

This is a short tip, and an easy checklist reference (not only for you, but also for myself). Although Microsoft does have a guide for this, it’s missing som...

Showing water in HoloLens 2 using the (deprecated) standard assets - in BOTH eyes

4 minute read

A pretty short tip this time. Recently I had the requirement to show water (that is, a fluid) in a HoloLens 2 app. Something like this: Fortunately, from ...

Rounded corners in MRTK UI

5 minute read

Rounded corners are suddenly hip again and all the rage, even in Microsoft land, as is clearly visible in Windows 11.

Getting Eye Tracking to work with OpenXR on HoloLens 2

2 minute read

You have moved your Unity project to OpenXR following Microsoft’s Guidelines and/or my blog post and upgraded to Unity 2020.3.x. Maybe there were some hiccup...