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Screen Sharing?
Does anyone know a way to screen share between two different HoloLens? My company has 4 HoloLens and the only semi close to screen sharing I see is through Skype, but I want to Demo a presentation of my app from one device and be able to see it from multiple HoloLens at once. Thank you!
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Sounds like you want to look into Academy 240 and look into the Sharing functionality in the HoloToolkit.
An approach like this would likely provide the best shared experience of your Demo on multiple HoloLens devices at the same time as each app would be running the demo and the network would just share anchor points and update messages.
When you say "screen sharing" it kind of sounds like you are thinking of some form of streaming, which in theory should also be possible but I would expect it to be much less performant and not the full immersive experience.
The Device Portal provides a mixed reality capture live preview option. And that same functionality is available through the Device Portal API.
So you probably could write an app that leverages the api to stream from one device to another, but the results would suffer from performance taxes, time lags and only ultimately result in a 2D video of the demo appearing in 3D space on the secondary devices.
Checkout the Academy 240 lesson.
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Sounds like you want to look into Academy 240 and look into the Sharing functionality in the HoloToolkit.
An approach like this would likely provide the best shared experience of your Demo on multiple HoloLens devices at the same time as each app would be running the demo and the network would just share anchor points and update messages.
When you say "screen sharing" it kind of sounds like you are thinking of some form of streaming, which in theory should also be possible but I would expect it to be much less performant and not the full immersive experience.
The Device Portal provides a mixed reality capture live preview option. And that same functionality is available through the Device Portal API.
So you probably could write an app that leverages the api to stream from one device to another, but the results would suffer from performance taxes, time lags and only ultimately result in a 2D video of the demo appearing in 3D space on the secondary devices.
Checkout the Academy 240 lesson.
Windows Holographic User Group Redmond
WinHUGR.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - @WinHUGR
WinHUGR YouTube Channel -- live streamed meetings