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There are a few other places we would like to direct you to for support, both from Microsoft and from the community.
The first way we want to connect with you is our mixed reality developer program, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/IWantMR.
For technical questions, please use Stack Overflow, and tag your questions using either hololens or windows-mixed-reality.
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Streaming Live Images
I am trying create an app that streams live images to my Hololens. Any ideas on how to get started? Thanks!
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@IGITech Do you want to stream a movie or a live stream from another HoloLens or a webcam? For streaming movies, you can try MobileMovieTexture Unity plugin. For streaming webcam feed, you can try searching for "locatable camera" on this forum.
I've had some terrible experiences with MobileMovieTexture in Unity. We were not able to play any kind of decent movie clip without performance dropping to 30fps or worse. It might, just might be fine if the clip is the only thing you want to show, but as soon as any other hologram enters the view where a movie is playing you'll notice significant lags and drifting making it unusable.
I would be really interested to find out how apps like Skype or HoloTour work since it's obvious that the HoloLens CAN play video, it's just that I was never able to do it from a Unity App.
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@AlexD What kind of primitive did you use to display the movie texture? Was it a simple quad or something more complex?
Simple quad
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I'm interested in this as well. I'm going to try seeing if I can interface with RiftCat's VRidge software, which I've been told is a UDP stream of h264 video.
Here's to hoping something can be worked out!