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Dec 11, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 3.5] — Cross-Platform Environment (VR)

In the previous section, the Spatial Awareness System in MRTK was used to bring real-world environment mesh data into the Unity scene. This is useful on Augmented Reality devices such as HoloLens where we can use the scanned world mesh for features such as Physics and occlusion. On virtual reality…

Oculus

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Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 3.5] — Cross-Platform Environment (VR)

Dec 4, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 8] — Oculus Quest Support

To setup Unity to support Oculus development, follow the instructions from Oculus here (Set Up Development Environment). Of note, the Android module needs to be installed with the current version of Unity on your development machine. To configure MRTK to work with the Oculus platform, follow the guide from MRTK…

Oculus

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Mar 27, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 7] — Building the app

Now, that we have the fundamentals for our app, we need to build and deploy the appx to our device. Ensure the project has been pre-configured correctly as outlined in Part 1. [UPDATE] This article was originally written for HoloLens only. This guide has been updated for Oculus devices as…

Unity

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Mar 25, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 6] —Creating the score board

Thus far, we we have created a Ball object that responds to user input, targets that spawn and react to our Ball and a dynamic environment for the scene. To bring it full circle, we will now create some UI to inform the user of their progress by tracking and…

Unity

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Mar 25, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 5] — Placing targets on the environment

Now that we have created two types of targets in the previous article, we need to spawn and place instances of these into the environment for the player to score against. Since the environment will be built by the spatial mapping output of the HoloLens platform, every scene will be…

Unity

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Mar 25, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 4] — Building the targets

This article will guide through the process of building the two types of targets that the user will be able to score against in our application. One target is a traditional “BullsEye” that the player must hit with the ball. The other target is a ring that the player must…

Unity

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Mar 23, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 1] — Install the tools

Tool Requirements Download the following tools to your development machine. This series assumes the user has a fundamental understanding of the Unity game engine and C# programming language. For building for HoloLens 2, a Windows 10 development machine is required. More information and spec requirements for HoloLens development can be found here. …

Unity

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Mar 23, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK

This guide walks through the creation of a XR application, called XR BREAK, for HoloLens 2 using Unity and the Mixed Reality Toolkit. [UPDATE] This guide has now been updated with the latest version of MRTK (2.5.1) AND support for the Oculus Quest 2! …

Unity

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Mar 23, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Part 3] — Scanning the environment (AR)

Getting started This section will walk through the setup to turn on the spatial mesh generated by the HoloLens platform. This mesh will be used for placing targets in the scene randomly as well as provide collision bounds for the ball. Turning on and configuring this system is quite simple in MRTK…

Unity

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Mar 23, 2020

Building an XR Application in Unity with MRTK [Appendix 2.a] — Stylizing the ball

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