Preface

Microsoft HoloLens is on par with a modern-day wonder. It is the world’s first untethered, head mounted computer capable of projecting holograms into the world around us. This new technology enables forms of interaction that we have not even been able to imagine yet. New ideas are coming to the surface every day.

As this new device and its conceptual successors are further iterated upon, becoming more powerful and smaller, we will see a shift away from the 2D displays that we have had in place for the last 90 years. Even the pocket computers we use daily now will likely fall away into shared experiences that are projected through glasses, and maybe even one day contact lenses.

This book is here to get those interested in being on the front end of the coming wave up to speed with the development process for Windows mixed reality (formerly Windows Holographic), the ecosystem that Microsoft has created in parallel with Windows 10 for their new class of devices.