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CrossPlatform in HoloToolkit, Holotoolkit-Unity.
Vato122
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I am working on a project with hololens.
to accelerate my development I started using Holotoolkit-Unity GitHub repository from microsoft. One of the folders in assets/holotoolkit is named CrossPlatform. I have a hard time understanding what the folder is for. The Readme says:
CrossPlatform
Wrapper scripts for Win32 and WinRT APIs in a single API call that works in the Unity editor and in a UWP application.
but I am not sure what this actually means. My concern is that I want to get rid of most of the files from holotoolkit-unity that I don't use and only leave the required ones. So I am thinking I need to leave build script and some other features I want to use like (input or spatialmapping), but I don't understand in what case if not in all I would like to keep crossplatform folder.
I also don't understand difference between Holotoolkit vs Holotoolkit-Unity repos. is Holotoolkit the bare minimum toolkit that most of the apps will require? is Holotoolkit-Unity the full holotoolkit library that u can choose features from?
here is the same question on [stackoverflow].(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40919198/what-does-cross-platform-folder-do-in-holotoolkit "stackoverflow")
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Jesse_McCulloch
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So, the easiest question to answer is the last one. The HoloToolkit-Unity is the tools needed for you to use the HoloToolkit within Unity. The HoloToolkit itself is for using DirectX to create your Holographic apps (ie, not using Unity at all). I have not used it, but I believe its some DLL's that allow you to do some of the common things that the HTK-Unity allows, such as sharing, spatial mapping, etc.
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So, the easiest question to answer is the last one. The HoloToolkit-Unity is the tools needed for you to use the HoloToolkit within Unity. The HoloToolkit itself is for using DirectX to create your Holographic apps (ie, not using Unity at all). I have not used it, but I believe its some DLL's that allow you to do some of the common things that the HTK-Unity allows, such as sharing, spatial mapping, etc.