Preface

Digital reality brings immersive experiences, such as transporting you to different world or places, making you interact within those immersive, mixing digital experiences with reality, and ultimately, opening new horizons to make you more productive.

The spectrum and scenarios of digital reality are huge; to understand them better, they are broken down into three different categories: Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR).

Microsoft HoloLens is the most powerful mixed reality personal computing Windows device. It allows you to place your digital content in the real physical world, where it matters most to you. This is what is called an MR device, one that tries to blend the real and digital worlds seamlessly and provides new ways to visualize the world beyond the screens.

The boundaries between the real and the digital world start to blur, and you can interact with the digital world in a very similar way to how you would interact with the real, physical world. What is it about HoloLens that makes it stand out from the other devices in this genre? It is the fact that Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully untethered, self-contained computer running on Windows 10. Yes, that's right: no hassle of wires, additional cables, or connections to a computer or additional devices. It is hands-free, self-contained device with a built-in battery.

This book is mainly focused on the building mixed reality application using Microsoft HoloLens. This book doesn’t require any prior knowledge about the holographic platform from the reader, and its strength is the simplicity in which the concepts have been presented using sketching, architecting, code snippets, a step-by-step process, and detailed descriptions. This book covers the following:

• Understanding what mixed reality is and the possibilities of it
• Understanding the process of developing enterprise holographic applications using HoloLens
• Learning the application and interaction model for holographic apps
• Understanding holographic application integration possibilities within Line of Business application using Azure
• Learning by realistic integrated project examples
• Learning end-to-end complex integrated solutions using holographic app and Azure