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Sticky request - known working version combos
We all know emergent tech is tough. The dependencies are changing rapidly (necessary for progress) but there is no "official" sticky for us to lean on to be 100% sure we are using the latest stable versions of everything. The info is spread all over and not always official - hard to know what is official in OSS, I know...
I'd love to have 1 source-of-truth sticky post moderated by the official HoloLens/MixedRealityToolkit team.
It's tough because we depend very much on Unity being stable and in lock-step with both MS Visual Studio and the MRTK. It would just be great to have 1 place we call confidently check in against occasionally to make sure all our dependencies line up.
Apologies if I've just been away from these forums for too long and have missed this, but I didn't see anything like this in a recent quick sweep of the stickies.
This is what I would love to see:
What are the highest versions we can use for Unity, Visual Studio, and the MRTK?
- please link to installers if they are not on normal download pages
Any possible alerts or notices for incoming changes.
Ideally - this page also stays up to date, as it the likely landing point for people who are just getting started: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/install_the_tools
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I joined the HoloDevelopers Slack team in order to ask this question. I am relatively new to HoloLens and it was quite frustrating finding the mix of tools that worked. It would be great if they put a sticky here. They do have this, https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/developer_readiness_status but it is not clear they keep it up to date and whether it applies to HoloLens as well.
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For example, this thread is a very good example of the community frustration: https://forum.unity.com/threads/custom-build-2017-2-rc-mrtp-windows-mixed-reality-technical-preview.498253/
https://www.billmccrary.com/
I would love to see that happen, but not sure if it is possible - especially since there are so many quickly evolving products and no central owner. The best source I've found is the HoloDevelopers Slack team, where the MRTK devs are very active (and they usually know which Unity/VS versions are working OK with their latest bits).
Keith Rome
VP of Technical Services
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Microsoft MVP 2016-2018
I joined the HoloDevelopers Slack team in order to ask this question. I am relatively new to HoloLens and it was quite frustrating finding the mix of tools that worked. It would be great if they put a sticky here. They do have this, https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/developer_readiness_status but it is not clear they keep it up to date and whether it applies to HoloLens as well.
@FunkyDonkey that's good news - can just anyone join that slack channel? Is this how to get an invite? https://holodevelopersslack.azurewebsites.net/
@JeffGullicksen that's a pretty good list but yeah, not confident it will be real-time. Slack sounds like the way to keep in touch, hoping that works out.
Thanks folks!
https://www.billmccrary.com/