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Creating an App with visual studio?
Is it possible to create an app with visual studio and not unity?
I have only seen tutorials for unity and visual studio?
Is there tutorials for just setting up a visual studio solution to deploy on hololens?
My app needs to allow the user to airtap any item in your real world and the hololens will then take a picture of the view. Then do some things with that picture and return some details to the user.
So I don't think I need to use unity to develop this.
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You can build a standard 2D UWP app and use the MediaCapture class to take pictures with the HoloLens Locatable camera. (The third kind of project is a DirectX project in Visual Studio, but it doesn't sound like you want to do that. It's pretty hairy.)
James Ashley
VS 2017 v5.3.3, Unity 2017.3.0f3, MRTK 2017.1.2, W10 17063
Microsoft MVP, Freelance HoloLens/MR Developer
www.imaginativeuniversal.com5
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@JD_Holo_Dev,
You can build a standard 2D UWP app and use the MediaCapture class to take pictures with the HoloLens Locatable camera. (The third kind of project is a DirectX project in Visual Studio, but it doesn't sound like you want to do that. It's pretty hairy.)
James Ashley
VS 2017 v5.3.3, Unity 2017.3.0f3, MRTK 2017.1.2, W10 17063
Microsoft MVP, Freelance HoloLens/MR Developer
www.imaginativeuniversal.com
I found a sample project for the 2d UWP Thanks.