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How can I take a photo or video while an app is running?
I can take photos of persistent static holograms. How can I do this while an app is running? HoloStudio allows this. There is a photo button at the bottom of the Start menu. How do I do it while running an app?
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BotGreet ✭
say "Hey Cortana, Start Recording" for video. Something similar for snapshot- thought it was just Hey Cortana Take Photo. If you are taking about adding feature to your app, there's some sample code in the hololens documentation site that I saw a few weeks back with samples for capturing video and photos programmatically in a unity app.
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Pentose ✭✭
Btw, a nice way to take an photo is to press the volume up and down buttons simultaneously.
For more, see https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/holographic/using_mixed_reality_capture#taking_mixed_reality_captures.
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say "Hey Cortana, Start Recording" for video. Something similar for snapshot- thought it was just Hey Cortana Take Photo. If you are taking about adding feature to your app, there's some sample code in the hololens documentation site that I saw a few weeks back with samples for capturing video and photos programmatically in a unity app.
Thanks, BotGreet. Your suggestion worked great.
Btw, a nice way to take an photo is to press the volume up and down buttons simultaneously.
For more, see https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/holographic/using_mixed_reality_capture#taking_mixed_reality_captures.
Thanks, Pentose. This eliminates the lag between asking Cortana to take the picture and the actual snap. For a changing subject, that makes a big difference.
Hello, would anyone know how to improve the quality of the photo capture? It's very low quality at around 0.25MB in size. I've tried to adjust the Live Preview Quality on the HoloLens settings page but no improvement.