Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...
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HoloLens
AAD Login HoloLens2 - MRTK3 Update
What’s the first thing that anyone creating any enterprise app will need to work out?
HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity
I recently required the functionality of creating a single, persistent local spatial anchor on HoloLens2. The purpose is to provide stability and a persistent
Azure Speech Studio for Mixed Reality
It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar ...
HoloLens 2 Unreal Project Template
Each time I wanted to create a HoloLens 2 Unreal Engine project I found myself recreating a blank level, setting up a GameMode and configuring the project. L...
AAD Login on HoloLens 2
One of the coolest aspects of HoloLens2 is the iris login as it removes the need for typing on a virtual keyboard. So a cool feature which avoids the need fo...
Shader Stereo instancing HoloLens
Now rendering stereo views for an immersive experience can be done in a number of different ways but it is very efficient to use as there is no need to send ...
IL2CPP + HoloLens
When I build an IL2CPP project in Unity it creates a native C++ Visual Studio project which is generated from the C# that you write in your Unity scripts. So...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens–Device Code Flow
This flow allows the auth to happen on a second device which may be more convenient if typing passwords or codes is required on a HoloLens device given that ...
Mixed Reality Evangelism
I have given many talks since then ranging from tech meetups, universities and most of the VR/AR conferences in the UK. It was not until fairly recently when...
WebVR + HoloLens
So, put on your HoloLens, go to that page and click on the HMD icon in the bottom right and you will see a giant funky sun in front of you!
Future Tech Now–Virtual Reality Show
The app consists of an angry, red ant that you can size and position using components recently added to the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity. These include a ...
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens
I guessed that sooner or later I’m going to want to need to access Microsoft Graph APIs from a HoloLens and I was writing some similar code for a different e...
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud
In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I...
Holograms Catalogue
Shared Holograms Catalogue. I’ve decided to break this post up into separate topics as when I got into this I realised there are a number of natural sections...
Future Decoded 2017 Mixed Reality
It was great to see all of the mixed reality content at this years Future Decoded event and was also fun to take part with a couple of technical ‘deep dive’ ...
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps
In mixed and virtual reality display technologies in order to not break the illusion of ‘presence’ it is critical to honour the time budget from device movem...
HoloLens & 3D Mapping
What I can help with though is sharing what I have learned and hopefully helping you with a starting point if like a past me you want to get up and running. ...
HoloLens Voice Commands
This is the fourth part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. To get set up with the HoloToolk...
HoloLens Gesture
This is the third part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. To get set up with the HoloToo...
HoloLens Gaze
This is the second part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. Gaze is a way to direct your att...
HoloLens End-to-End in Unity
In preparation for my session, HoloLens: The Path to Mixed Reality at Future Decoded UK 2016 (the first official HoloLens developer session in the UK) I put ...
3D Models From Blender to HoloLens
There are many ways to source 3D models for use in HoloLens projects; if you are a developer working with 3D artists then you just need to agree an interchan...
HoloLens Intro – Resources to Get Started
(Originally posted here https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2016/10/12/hololens-is-available-to-purchase-for-developers-and-enterprise-customers-in...
Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track
Every 10-15 years we see fundamental paradigm shifts in computing; we’ve seen Desktop computing, Web, Mobile and…well we are seeing the rise of artificial in...
HoloToolkit Build Window
Now you have a shortcut to start the HoloLens emulator (see /hololens/holotoolkit/2016/09/24/start-hololens-emulator-without-visual-studio.html) it would be ...
Start HoloLens Emulator without Visual Studio
If you find yourself hitting memory allocation issues for the HoloLens emulator (like this) or you want to run the emulator on a separate machine to that whi...
Windows Phone 7
wp7–JSON parsing
Peter Daukintis I’m writing this mainly as a central place to store this code as I need to use it frequently – hopefully it will help others also. Supposing ...
skydrive photo upload wp7
Peter Daukintis I just modified my file upload sample (http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/wp7-skydrive-upload/) to use the PhotoChooserTask to ...
wp7 Collectionviewsource filtering
Having read a recent question on the App Hub Forums I decided to update my previous post on CollectionViewSource http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2011/0...
wp7 skydrive upload
Technorati Tags: wp7dev Download the sdk, which at the time of writing is here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=281...
wp7 – custom control project template
I couldn’t locate a Visual Studio project template for creating a windows phone 7 custom control library. So….I decided to make one. It is pretty straight-fo...
wp7 CollectionViewSource – sorting a listbox
A nice and flexible way to introduce filtering and sorting on a view model data collection is to use a CollectionViewSource. Here’s a quick example: ...
wp7 record your own accelerometer data for testing
In the recent Mango developer tools for Windows Phone the device emulator has been updated to include an accelerometer simulation screen. Thi...
wp7 pathlistbox
Since the new Mango developer tools were just released I wanted to write a quick post on PathListBox since I have been looking for an excuse to give it a try...
WP7 UserControls
by Peter Daukintis Since silverlight 2 we have had the concept of the UserControl which provides a simple way to compose a re-usable part of our user interfa...
Simple textbox validation wp7
Since wp7 is based on Silverlight 3 then input validation can be done (love or loathe it) via exceptions. Here’s a simple example… <Grid x:Name=&q...
MS translator api text to speech WP7
I’ve been messing around around with the ms translator api (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512435.aspx) and thought I’d post my sample code. http:...
databinding BingMaps Control Wp7 MVVM
Ok, so a similar treatment for the Bing Maps control as for previous posts on the Pivot and Panorama controls. So starting out with a standard Windows Phone ...
WCF Rest Service - WP7 Client
Here is a working project with an extremely simple WCF rest service and a Windows Phone 7 client application using WebClient. WebHttpBinding Service + WP7 ...
Data Binding Panorama Control WP7 MVVM
by Peter Daukintis Ok, this is just a quick follow-up to a previous post Data Binding Pivot Control just as confirmation that this approach will work for t...
WP7 looping selector
by Peter Daukintis After release of the RTM software tools for WP7 I was pleased to see the looping controls manifested as DatePicker and TimePicker since I...
Data Binding Pivot Control WP7 MVVM
by Peter Daukintis Ok, having had access to the official WP7 Pivot control in the RTM Tools for Windows Phone 7 for a few days I thought it was time to explo...
WP7 ListBoxItem Animation on bound data changes (MVVM)
by Peter Daukintis Recently, I found myself needing to animate a List Box Item in response to it’s underlying bound data changing in a Windows Phone 7 applic...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 7 – VisualStateManager transitions)
by Peter Daukintis So all that remains is to transition between the login ui to a welcome screen. I guess there are a number of ways of approaching this but...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 6 – loading screen)
By Peter Daukintis First we need to create the loading screen user control which is heavily based upon the one used here http://www.orktane.com/Blog/post/201...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 5 – creating the basic UI)
by Peter Daukintis Okay, so we haven’t touched on any of the user interface yet but this supports the theory that we should be able to develop the user inter...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 4 – Loading…)
By Peter Daukintis I decided to explore the Service Locator pattern to implement handling of the busy indicator. This involves considering the busy indicator...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 3 – LoginCommand)
by Peter Daukintis Now, to support the login functionality I will add a password property in exactly the same way (test first) as the username text property ...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 2 – The first test)
by Peter Daukintis First, I will create a new project in Visual Studio using the MVVM Light project templates (MVVM Light is not a requirement really it just...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 1 - Introduction)
by Peter Daukintis Before jumping into Windows Phone 7 development I need to define some ideas about a baseline architecture so I have a clear development di...
Azure
Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...
AAD Login HoloLens2 - MRTK3 Update
What’s the first thing that anyone creating any enterprise app will need to work out?
Azure Speech Studio for Mixed Reality
It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar ...
Simplygon in Azure
Before I begin I want to credit team members from Microsoft CSE (commercial Software Engineering) as the effort was shared…
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
AAD Login on HoloLens 2
One of the coolest aspects of HoloLens2 is the iris login as it removes the need for typing on a virtual keyboard. So a cool feature which avoids the need fo...
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud
In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I...
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
Azure Website in 2 mins
Love that you can create a hosted website from the command line with a few simple commands: azure site create --git fromCmdLine copy con index.html <!D...
Web Application Template Push Notifications
Web App Template The Web Application Template (WAT) is a great way to create a presence in the Windows App Stores if you already have a suitable web applicat...
Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io
Peter Daukintis If you haven’t previously done this download your Azure publish settings file from here https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.asp...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 5)
by Peter Daukintis To illustrate how the final architecture hangs together I will take the AudioModule PRISM module from the previous post and link it up wit...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 4)
by Peter Daukintis So, now I know how to set up a basic project, store and retrieve my data in Azure Table storage and have incorporated the asp.net provider...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 3)
by Peter Daukintis Next up is getting the authentication service to use azure table storage. To do this you need to get the additional azure code samples fro...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 2)
by Peter Daukintis Ok, with Azure out of the equation until .NET 4 is supported I will turn my attention first to work out how to achieve data storage in th...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 1)
by Peter Daukintis The original idea for this post was to see whether this combination of technologies played well together. Whilst the development tools se...
Azure Management API
by Peter Daukintis Disclaimer – the code shown below is not of high quality, does not have any error handling and is shown for educational purposes only. Hav...
Kinect
Kinect V2 - Simple Sound Detection C++
This is a very simple post showing an implementation of the detection of a sound, any sound above a threshold, using the Kinect V2 SDK. The sample is written...
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
OPENFRAMEWORKS + KINECT 4 WINDOWS V2 (II)
In my previous post I showed how to get an environment set up with Openframeworks and Kinect V2.0 for Windows Store. I’d like to elaborate on that a little...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5
With the recent announcements at GDC2015 from Unity about their new licensing model I thought I would update my Kinect and Unity3d post as now a pro Unity li...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 - in the browser
For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which provided browser compatibility. The general idea is that the Kinect SDK can b...
A Lap Around the Kinect for Windows V2 SDK
A recording from a recent talk with Mike Taulty at NDC LONDON 2014 Content and demos, including: Intro to the Kinect v2 for Windows Hardware and SDK...
Kinect 4 Windows v2 – Custom Gestures in Unity
I have received a few questions recently about detecting Kinect custom gestures in Unity 3D and it seems that there are a few issues with getting this up a...
Kinecting XAML + Unity
Following on from my previous post where I showed how easy it is to interact with Kinect data inside the unity 3D environment I wondered how I might manipu...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity 3D
After installing the Kinect v2 SDK from here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44561 you can also download the supporting Unity 3D pl...
Openframeworks + Kinect 4 Windows V2
OpenFrameworks I am in the process of reviewing various frameworks for visualising my Kinect windows store apps because prototyping ideas Direct3D is a bit l...
Visual Gesture Builder – Kinect 4 Windows v2 (code)
My previous post looked into my experimentation with using Visual Gesture Builder to create a gesture builder database (gbd) with a view to incorporating cod...
Visual Gesture Builder – Kinect 4 Windows v2
When I created a previous project for a multi-user drum kit when it was time to code the gesture for a user hitting a drum I used a heuristic detector as it ...
Face Tracking Native – Kinect 4 Windows v2
Well, with the managed version working in c# (see Face Tracking Kinect 4 Windows V2 - Managed) it should be a breeze to convert the code to a native c++ wind...
Face Tracking – Kinect 4 Windows v2
Since working on the virtual rail project I haven’t had much chance to carry out much in the way of Kinect programming. That all changes now since I ordered...
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
kinect drums
Whilst exploring the possibilities opened by the Kinect device I made a demo using the OpenNI framework http://www.openni.org/ with PrimeSense NITE component...
OpenNI + Kinect (getting set up on Windows)
I have recently been hacking around with a kinect camera + OpenNI + PrimeSense NITE components and initially it was quite challenging to get t...
WinRT
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
Kinect 4 Windows v2 – Custom Gestures in Unity
I have received a few questions recently about detecting Kinect custom gestures in Unity 3D and it seems that there are a few issues with getting this up a...
Openframeworks + Kinect 4 Windows V2
OpenFrameworks I am in the process of reviewing various frameworks for visualising my Kinect windows store apps because prototyping ideas Direct3D is a bit l...
Face Tracking Native – Kinect 4 Windows v2
Well, with the managed version working in c# (see Face Tracking Kinect 4 Windows V2 - Managed) it should be a breeze to convert the code to a native c++ wind...
Face Tracking – Kinect 4 Windows v2
Since working on the virtual rail project I haven’t had much chance to carry out much in the way of Kinect programming. That all changes now since I ordered...
Semantic Zoom (Universal Apps)
Hub App This will be a bit of a deep dive into the Semantic Zoom control and it’s usage in a windows c# / xaml universal app project. Starting with something...
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
datatemplateselector winrt
by Peter Daukintis Having used DataTemplateSelectors previously with WPF and similar on Silverlight/Windows Phone I decided to check out whether they work th...
c#
Simplygon in Azure
Before I begin I want to credit team members from Microsoft CSE (commercial Software Engineering) as the effort was shared…
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
Kinect V2 - Simple Sound Detection C++
This is a very simple post showing an implementation of the detection of a sound, any sound above a threshold, using the Kinect V2 SDK. The sample is written...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 - in the browser
For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which provided browser compatibility. The general idea is that the Kinect SDK can b...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
Unity
AAD Login HoloLens2 - MRTK3 Update
What’s the first thing that anyone creating any enterprise app will need to work out?
IL2CPP + HoloLens
When I build an IL2CPP project in Unity it creates a native C++ Visual Studio project which is generated from the C# that you write in your Unity scripts. So...
Future Tech Now–Virtual Reality Show
The app consists of an angry, red ant that you can size and position using components recently added to the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity. These include a ...
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
Holograms Catalogue
Shared Holograms Catalogue. I’ve decided to break this post up into separate topics as when I got into this I realised there are a number of natural sections...
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
HoloLens & 3D Mapping
What I can help with though is sharing what I have learned and hopefully helping you with a starting point if like a past me you want to get up and running. ...
HoloLens Voice Commands
This is the fourth part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. To get set up with the HoloToolk...
HoloLens Gesture
This is the third part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. To get set up with the HoloToo...
HoloLens Gaze
This is the second part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. Gaze is a way to direct your att...
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D)
As mentioned in the previous post Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) I will look at stereoscopic rendering and removing the lens distort...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D)
Mobile VR Recently I have been tracking the surge in interest in virtual reality and things certainly seem to have moved on in the last 20 years! Having expe...
Kinect 4 Windows v2 – Custom Gestures in Unity
I have received a few questions recently about detecting Kinect custom gestures in Unity 3D and it seems that there are a few issues with getting this up a...
Kinecting XAML + Unity
Following on from my previous post where I showed how easy it is to interact with Kinect data inside the unity 3D environment I wondered how I might manipu...
3D
Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...
Simplygon in Azure
Before I begin I want to credit team members from Microsoft CSE (commercial Software Engineering) as the effort was shared…
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
WebVR + HoloLens
So, put on your HoloLens, go to that page and click on the HMD icon in the bottom right and you will see a giant funky sun in front of you!
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
GLB reading and writing
Just a quick post as I am looking at a useful Nuget package Microsoft.GLTF.cpp and wanted to note down my quick experiment with it. For an unrelated project ...
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud
In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I...
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
HoloLens End-to-End in Unity
In preparation for my session, HoloLens: The Path to Mixed Reality at Future Decoded UK 2016 (the first official HoloLens developer session in the UK) I put ...
3D Models From Blender to HoloLens
There are many ways to source 3D models for use in HoloLens projects; if you are a developer working with 3D artists then you just need to agree an interchan...
MVVM
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
databinding BingMaps Control Wp7 MVVM
Ok, so a similar treatment for the Bing Maps control as for previous posts on the Pivot and Panorama controls. So starting out with a standard Windows Phone ...
Data Binding Panorama Control WP7 MVVM
by Peter Daukintis Ok, this is just a quick follow-up to a previous post Data Binding Pivot Control just as confirmation that this approach will work for t...
Data Binding Pivot Control WP7 MVVM
by Peter Daukintis Ok, having had access to the official WP7 Pivot control in the RTM Tools for Windows Phone 7 for a few days I thought it was time to explo...
WP7 ListBoxItem Animation on bound data changes (MVVM)
by Peter Daukintis Recently, I found myself needing to animate a List Box Item in response to it’s underlying bound data changing in a Windows Phone 7 applic...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 7 – VisualStateManager transitions)
by Peter Daukintis So all that remains is to transition between the login ui to a welcome screen. I guess there are a number of ways of approaching this but...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 6 – loading screen)
By Peter Daukintis First we need to create the loading screen user control which is heavily based upon the one used here http://www.orktane.com/Blog/post/201...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 5 – creating the basic UI)
by Peter Daukintis Okay, so we haven’t touched on any of the user interface yet but this supports the theory that we should be able to develop the user inter...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 4 – Loading…)
By Peter Daukintis I decided to explore the Service Locator pattern to implement handling of the busy indicator. This involves considering the busy indicator...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 3 – LoginCommand)
by Peter Daukintis Now, to support the login functionality I will add a password property in exactly the same way (test first) as the username text property ...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 2 – The first test)
by Peter Daukintis First, I will create a new project in Visual Studio using the MVVM Light project templates (MVVM Light is not a requirement really it just...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 1 - Introduction)
by Peter Daukintis Before jumping into Windows Phone 7 development I need to define some ideas about a baseline architecture so I have a clear development di...
WPF Commanding and Data Annotations Validation
by Peter Daukintis I recently ran into the need to create a simple WPF app with a data form front end and which should provide some simple validation feedbac...
Uncategorized
HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity
I recently required the functionality of creating a single, persistent local spatial anchor on HoloLens2. The purpose is to provide stability and a persistent
Simplygon in Azure
Before I begin I want to credit team members from Microsoft CSE (commercial Software Engineering) as the effort was shared…
AAD Login on HoloLens 2
One of the coolest aspects of HoloLens2 is the iris login as it removes the need for typing on a virtual keyboard. So a cool feature which avoids the need fo...
Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track Sessions
Following my intro post to Future Decoded AR/VR track here is the session information (see https://futuredecoded.microsoft.com/technical-day/ for updates and...
Reasons To 2016
Sketch by Caroline Vermeulen This week I headed down to Brighton to speak at Reasons to be Creative for the first time. Meeting Mike Brondbjerg there remind...
MS Health Bot Tutorial
This is a step-by-step guide to writing an Bot in C# using the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET template. You will need to have collected some sleep data usi...
Windows Phone Mobile VR Update
Its over a year now since I published these two blog posts: Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Re...
metro background audio c# (release preview)
Peter Daukintis I have just updated the sample I created for this previous post metro background audio c# (consumer preview). I have re-jigged the code to wo...
Nokia Lumia 800 Developer Gift
A few months back Nokia announced their intention to provide developers with windows phone hardware in the shape of 25000 Lumia 800s (see http://www.winrumor...
RIA Services Development Tips
by Peter Daukintis Service Calls Use Fiddler to diagnose the WCF service call traffic! Fiddler won’t monitor localhost by default so see the information here...
unity
AAD Login HoloLens2 - MRTK3 Update
What’s the first thing that anyone creating any enterprise app will need to work out?
HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity
I recently required the functionality of creating a single, persistent local spatial anchor on HoloLens2. The purpose is to provide stability and a persistent
Shader Stereo instancing HoloLens
Now rendering stereo views for an immersive experience can be done in a number of different ways but it is very efficient to use as there is no need to send ...
Future Tech Now–Virtual Reality Show
The app consists of an angry, red ant that you can size and position using components recently added to the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity. These include a ...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens
I guessed that sooner or later I’m going to want to need to access Microsoft Graph APIs from a HoloLens and I was writing some similar code for a different e...
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps
In mixed and virtual reality display technologies in order to not break the illusion of ‘presence’ it is critical to honour the time budget from device movem...
HoloLens & 3D Mapping
What I can help with though is sharing what I have learned and hopefully helping you with a starting point if like a past me you want to get up and running. ...
c++
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
GLB reading and writing
Just a quick post as I am looking at a useful Nuget package Microsoft.GLTF.cpp and wanted to note down my quick experiment with it. For an unrelated project ...
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
Kinect V2 - Simple Sound Detection C++
This is a very simple post showing an implementation of the detection of a sound, any sound above a threshold, using the Kinect V2 SDK. The sample is written...
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
Face Tracking Native – Kinect 4 Windows v2
Well, with the managed version working in c# (see Face Tracking Kinect 4 Windows V2 - Managed) it should be a breeze to convert the code to a native c++ wind...
windows
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Microsoft Band Heart Rate Sample – UWP
Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I didn’t see too many UWP (Universal Windows Platform) samples using the Microsoft Band SDK. I gave...
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5
With the recent announcements at GDC2015 from Unity about their new licensing model I thought I would update my Kinect and Unity3d post as now a pro Unity li...
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
A Lap Around the Kinect for Windows V2 SDK
A recording from a recent talk with Mike Taulty at NDC LONDON 2014 Content and demos, including: Intro to the Kinect v2 for Windows Hardware and SDK...
UWP
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
Jamchester 2016–Windows VR Resources
Gameopolis have been working with we've been working with Hack Manchester to create the UK's biggest competitive game jam in Manchester on 20th-22nd May 201...
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Fake Microsoft Band
Along with my colleague at Microsoft, David Gristwood I have been working on and off on an IOT reference architecture using data from the Microsoft Band. Dav...
Microsoft Band Heart Rate Sample – UWP
Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I didn’t see too many UWP (Universal Windows Platform) samples using the Microsoft Band SDK. I gave...
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
TDD
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 7 – VisualStateManager transitions)
by Peter Daukintis So all that remains is to transition between the login ui to a welcome screen. I guess there are a number of ways of approaching this but...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 6 – loading screen)
By Peter Daukintis First we need to create the loading screen user control which is heavily based upon the one used here http://www.orktane.com/Blog/post/201...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 5 – creating the basic UI)
by Peter Daukintis Okay, so we haven’t touched on any of the user interface yet but this supports the theory that we should be able to develop the user inter...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 4 – Loading…)
By Peter Daukintis I decided to explore the Service Locator pattern to implement handling of the busy indicator. This involves considering the busy indicator...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 3 – LoginCommand)
by Peter Daukintis Now, to support the login functionality I will add a password property in exactly the same way (test first) as the username text property ...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 2 – The first test)
by Peter Daukintis First, I will create a new project in Visual Studio using the MVVM Light project templates (MVVM Light is not a requirement really it just...
Windows Phone 7, MVVM and TDD (Part 1 - Introduction)
by Peter Daukintis Before jumping into Windows Phone 7 development I need to define some ideas about a baseline architecture so I have a clear development di...
TDD Introduction
by Peter Daukintis Test Driven Development This is a basic introduction to test-driven development describing related technologies in a simple, straightforwa...
Windows 8
Semantic Zoom (Universal Apps)
Hub App This will be a bit of a deep dive into the Semantic Zoom control and it’s usage in a windows c# / xaml universal app project. Starting with something...
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
datatemplateselector winrt
by Peter Daukintis Having used DataTemplateSelectors previously with WPF and similar on Silverlight/Windows Phone I decided to check out whether they work th...
winrt
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
datatemplateselector winrt
by Peter Daukintis Having used DataTemplateSelectors previously with WPF and similar on Silverlight/Windows Phone I decided to check out whether they work th...
VR
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track
Every 10-15 years we see fundamental paradigm shifts in computing; we’ve seen Desktop computing, Web, Mobile and…well we are seeing the rise of artificial in...
Democratising 3D Content Creation
Since returning my main focus to the fields of Augmented and Virtual reality I have experienced more light-bulb moments than at any time in my previous caree...
Jamchester 2016–Windows VR Resources
Gameopolis have been working with we've been working with Hack Manchester to create the UK's biggest competitive game jam in Manchester on 20th-22nd May 201...
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Windows Phone Mobile VR Update
Its over a year now since I published these two blog posts: Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Re...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D)
As mentioned in the previous post Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) I will look at stereoscopic rendering and removing the lens distort...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D)
Mobile VR Recently I have been tracking the surge in interest in virtual reality and things certainly seem to have moved on in the last 20 years! Having expe...
uwp
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
MS Band Server – sensor data in a browser
Chatting recently with Mike Brondbjerg recently about some data visualisation ideas around using the Microsoft Band and we came to the conclusion that gettin...
Fake Microsoft Band
Along with my colleague at Microsoft, David Gristwood I have been working on and off on an IOT reference architecture using data from the Microsoft Band. Dav...
Microsoft Band Heart Rate Sample – UWP
Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I didn’t see too many UWP (Universal Windows Platform) samples using the Microsoft Band SDK. I gave...
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
gltf
WebVR + HoloLens
So, put on your HoloLens, go to that page and click on the HMD icon in the bottom right and you will see a giant funky sun in front of you!
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
GLB reading and writing
Just a quick post as I am looking at a useful Nuget package Microsoft.GLTF.cpp and wanted to note down my quick experiment with it. For an unrelated project ...
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud
In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I...
Metro
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
datatemplateselector winrt
by Peter Daukintis Having used DataTemplateSelectors previously with WPF and similar on Silverlight/Windows Phone I decided to check out whether they work th...
kinect
Kinect V2 - Simple Sound Detection C++
This is a very simple post showing an implementation of the detection of a sound, any sound above a threshold, using the Kinect V2 SDK. The sample is written...
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
OPENFRAMEWORKS + KINECT 4 WINDOWS V2 (II)
In my previous post I showed how to get an environment set up with Openframeworks and Kinect V2.0 for Windows Store. I’d like to elaborate on that a little...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5
With the recent announcements at GDC2015 from Unity about their new licensing model I thought I would update my Kinect and Unity3d post as now a pro Unity li...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 - in the browser
For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which provided browser compatibility. The general idea is that the Kinect SDK can b...
A Lap Around the Kinect for Windows V2 SDK
A recording from a recent talk with Mike Taulty at NDC LONDON 2014 Content and demos, including: Intro to the Kinect v2 for Windows Hardware and SDK...
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
MS Band
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
MS Health API Bot
As we make steady progress from a world where the user input to a computer or mobile device consists of flat two dimensional elements controlled by mouse and...
MS Band Server – sensor data in a browser
Chatting recently with Mike Brondbjerg recently about some data visualisation ideas around using the Microsoft Band and we came to the conclusion that gettin...
Fake Microsoft Band
Along with my colleague at Microsoft, David Gristwood I have been working on and off on an IOT reference architecture using data from the Microsoft Band. Dav...
Microsoft Band Heart Rate Sample – UWP
Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I didn’t see too many UWP (Universal Windows Platform) samples using the Microsoft Band SDK. I gave...
Microsoft Band Web Tile
To get data on your Microsoft Band you can use the Microsoft Band SDK from within a mobile application. There is now an easier way to get data onto the band...
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
HoloToolkit
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
HoloLens Voice Commands
This is the fourth part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. To get set up with the HoloToolk...
HoloLens Gesture
This is the third part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. To get set up with the HoloToo...
HoloLens Gaze
This is the second part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. Gaze is a way to direct your att...
HoloToolkit Build Window
Now you have a shortcut to start the HoloLens emulator (see /hololens/holotoolkit/2016/09/24/start-hololens-emulator-without-visual-studio.html) it would be ...
Start HoloLens Emulator without Visual Studio
If you find yourself hitting memory allocation issues for the HoloLens emulator (like this) or you want to run the emulator on a separate machine to that whi...
mixedreality
Azure Speech Studio for Mixed Reality
It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar ...
AAD Login on HoloLens 2
One of the coolest aspects of HoloLens2 is the iris login as it removes the need for typing on a virtual keyboard. So a cool feature which avoids the need fo...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens–Device Code Flow
This flow allows the auth to happen on a second device which may be more convenient if typing passwords or codes is required on a HoloLens device given that ...
Future Tech Now–Virtual Reality Show
The app consists of an angry, red ant that you can size and position using components recently added to the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity. These include a ...
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud
In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I...
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
RIA Services
RIA Services Development Tips
by Peter Daukintis Service Calls Use Fiddler to diagnose the WCF service call traffic! Fiddler won’t monitor localhost by default so see the information here...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 5)
by Peter Daukintis To illustrate how the final architecture hangs together I will take the AudioModule PRISM module from the previous post and link it up wit...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 4)
by Peter Daukintis So, now I know how to set up a basic project, store and retrieve my data in Azure Table storage and have incorporated the asp.net provider...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 3)
by Peter Daukintis Next up is getting the authentication service to use azure table storage. To do this you need to get the additional azure code samples fro...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 2)
by Peter Daukintis Ok, with Azure out of the equation until .NET 4 is supported I will turn my attention first to work out how to achieve data storage in th...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 1)
by Peter Daukintis The original idea for this post was to see whether this combination of technologies played well together. Whilst the development tools se...
win8
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
datatemplateselector winrt
by Peter Daukintis Having used DataTemplateSelectors previously with WPF and similar on Silverlight/Windows Phone I decided to check out whether they work th...
azure
Azure Speech Studio for Mixed Reality
It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar ...
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
Azure Website in 2 mins
Love that you can create a hosted website from the command line with a few simple commands: azure site create --git fromCmdLine copy con index.html <!D...
Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io
Peter Daukintis If you haven’t previously done this download your Azure publish settings file from here https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.asp...
unity3d
Shader Stereo instancing HoloLens
Now rendering stereo views for an immersive experience can be done in a number of different ways but it is very efficient to use as there is no need to send ...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens
I guessed that sooner or later I’m going to want to need to access Microsoft Graph APIs from a HoloLens and I was writing some similar code for a different e...
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
HoloLens Gaze
This is the second part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. Gaze is a way to direct your att...
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5
With the recent announcements at GDC2015 from Unity about their new licensing model I thought I would update my Kinect and Unity3d post as now a pro Unity li...
MR
HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity
I recently required the functionality of creating a single, persistent local spatial anchor on HoloLens2. The purpose is to provide stability and a persistent
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
Future Decoded 2017 Mixed Reality
It was great to see all of the mixed reality content at this years Future Decoded event and was also fun to take part with a couple of technical ‘deep dive’ ...
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
HoloLens Intro – Resources to Get Started
(Originally posted here https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2016/10/12/hololens-is-available-to-purchase-for-developers-and-enterprise-customers-in...
Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track
Every 10-15 years we see fundamental paradigm shifts in computing; we’ve seen Desktop computing, Web, Mobile and…well we are seeing the rise of artificial in...
3dmodels
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
GLB reading and writing
Just a quick post as I am looking at a useful Nuget package Microsoft.GLTF.cpp and wanted to note down my quick experiment with it. For an unrelated project ...
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
ASP.NET MVC
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 5)
by Peter Daukintis To illustrate how the final architecture hangs together I will take the AudioModule PRISM module from the previous post and link it up wit...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 4)
by Peter Daukintis So, now I know how to set up a basic project, store and retrieve my data in Azure Table storage and have incorporated the asp.net provider...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 3)
by Peter Daukintis Next up is getting the authentication service to use azure table storage. To do this you need to get the additional azure code samples fro...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 2)
by Peter Daukintis Ok, with Azure out of the equation until .NET 4 is supported I will turn my attention first to work out how to achieve data storage in th...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 1)
by Peter Daukintis The original idea for this post was to see whether this combination of technologies played well together. Whilst the development tools se...
Silverlight
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 5)
by Peter Daukintis To illustrate how the final architecture hangs together I will take the AudioModule PRISM module from the previous post and link it up wit...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 4)
by Peter Daukintis So, now I know how to set up a basic project, store and retrieve my data in Azure Table storage and have incorporated the asp.net provider...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 3)
by Peter Daukintis Next up is getting the authentication service to use azure table storage. To do this you need to get the additional azure code samples fro...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 2)
by Peter Daukintis Ok, with Azure out of the equation until .NET 4 is supported I will turn my attention first to work out how to achieve data storage in th...
Azure + Silverlight 4 + RIA Services + MVC2 (Part 1)
by Peter Daukintis The original idea for this post was to see whether this combination of technologies played well together. Whilst the development tools se...
metro
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
datatemplateselector winrt
by Peter Daukintis Having used DataTemplateSelectors previously with WPF and similar on Silverlight/Windows Phone I decided to check out whether they work th...
glTF
WebVR + HoloLens
So, put on your HoloLens, go to that page and click on the HMD icon in the bottom right and you will see a giant funky sun in front of you!
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
WP8
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D)
Mobile VR Recently I have been tracking the surge in interest in virtual reality and things certainly seem to have moved on in the last 20 years! Having expe...
Semantic Zoom (Universal Apps)
Hub App This will be a bit of a deep dive into the Semantic Zoom control and it’s usage in a windows c# / xaml universal app project. Starting with something...
wp8 streamsocket
Building on previous StreamSocket-related posts http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/streamsocket-example-c-metro/ and http://babaandthepigman.wo...
windows store
Jamchester 2016–Windows VR Resources
Gameopolis have been working with we've been working with Hack Manchester to create the UK's biggest competitive game jam in Manchester on 20th-22nd May 201...
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5
With the recent announcements at GDC2015 from Unity about their new licensing model I thought I would update my Kinect and Unity3d post as now a pro Unity li...
Microsoft
MS Health API Bot
As we make steady progress from a world where the user input to a computer or mobile device consists of flat two dimensional elements controlled by mouse and...
MS Band Server – sensor data in a browser
Chatting recently with Mike Brondbjerg recently about some data visualisation ideas around using the Microsoft Band and we came to the conclusion that gettin...
Microsoft Band Web Tile
To get data on your Microsoft Band you can use the Microsoft Band SDK from within a mobile application. There is now an easier way to get data onto the band...
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
blender
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
HoloLens End-to-End in Unity
In preparation for my session, HoloLens: The Path to Mixed Reality at Future Decoded UK 2016 (the first official HoloLens developer session in the UK) I put ...
3D Models From Blender to HoloLens
There are many ways to source 3D models for use in HoloLens projects; if you are a developer working with 3D artists then you just need to agree an interchan...
Blender
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
HoloLens End-to-End in Unity
In preparation for my session, HoloLens: The Path to Mixed Reality at Future Decoded UK 2016 (the first official HoloLens developer session in the UK) I put ...
3D Models From Blender to HoloLens
There are many ways to source 3D models for use in HoloLens projects; if you are a developer working with 3D artists then you just need to agree an interchan...
Mixed Reality
Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...
HoloLens2 local anchors with OpenXR in Unity
I recently required the functionality of creating a single, persistent local spatial anchor on HoloLens2. The purpose is to provide stability and a persistent
HoloLens 2 Unreal Project Template
Each time I wanted to create a HoloLens 2 Unreal Engine project I found myself recreating a blank level, setting up a GameMode and configuring the project. L...
Future Decoded 2017 Mixed Reality
It was great to see all of the mixed reality content at this years Future Decoded event and was also fun to take part with a couple of technical ‘deep dive’ ...
glb
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
GLB reading and writing
Just a quick post as I am looking at a useful Nuget package Microsoft.GLTF.cpp and wanted to note down my quick experiment with it. For an unrelated project ...
UK Tech Days
Microsoft UK Tech days (day 5)
by Peter Daukintis Windows Phone 7 Charlie Kindel gave keynote presentation on Windows Phone 7. These are my notes: The focus for Microsoft Mobile has switch...
Microsoft UK Tech days (day 4)
by Peter Daukintis The cinema screen used for the presentations at the Fulham Vue Cinema. This was the client-based tech day: Windows 7 The Windows 7 Code ...
Microsoft UK Tech days (day 3)
by Peter Daukintis I am planning to attend days 3, 4 and 5 of MS UK Techdays; here are some of the notes I scribbled down at day 3: Silverlight 4.0 Silverlig...
skydrive
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
skydrive photo upload wp7
Peter Daukintis I just modified my file upload sample (http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/wp7-skydrive-upload/) to use the PhotoChooserTask to ...
wp7 skydrive upload
Technorati Tags: wp7dev Download the sdk, which at the time of writing is here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=281...
wp7dev
skydrive photo upload wp7
Peter Daukintis I just modified my file upload sample (http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/wp7-skydrive-upload/) to use the PhotoChooserTask to ...
wp7 Collectionviewsource filtering
Having read a recent question on the App Hub Forums I decided to update my previous post on CollectionViewSource http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2011/0...
wp7 skydrive upload
Technorati Tags: wp7dev Download the sdk, which at the time of writing is here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=281...
consumer preview
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
xaml
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
wp8
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D)
Mobile VR Recently I have been tracking the surge in interest in virtual reality and things certainly seem to have moved on in the last 20 years! Having expe...
wp8 streamsocket
Building on previous StreamSocket-related posts http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/streamsocket-example-c-metro/ and http://babaandthepigman.wo...
Universal Apps
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Web Application Template Push Notifications
Web App Template The Web Application Template (WAT) is a great way to create a presence in the Windows App Stores if you already have a suitable web applicat...
Semantic Zoom (Universal Apps)
Hub App This will be a bit of a deep dive into the Semantic Zoom control and it’s usage in a windows c# / xaml universal app project. Starting with something...
Visual Studio
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5
I have been following the progression of ASP.NET in particular in relation to the changes made for ASP.NET 5. I’m going to take a look under the cove...
Windows Phone
Windows Phone Mobile VR Update
Its over a year now since I published these two blog posts: Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Re...
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D)
As mentioned in the previous post Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) I will look at stereoscopic rendering and removing the lens distort...
windows phone
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D)
As mentioned in the previous post Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) I will look at stereoscopic rendering and removing the lens distort...
directx
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
band
MS Band Server – sensor data in a browser
Chatting recently with Mike Brondbjerg recently about some data visualisation ideas around using the Microsoft Band and we came to the conclusion that gettin...
Microsoft Band Web Tile
To get data on your Microsoft Band you can use the Microsoft Band SDK from within a mobile application. There is now an easier way to get data onto the band...
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
Windows Mixed Reality
Mixed Reality Evangelism
I have given many talks since then ranging from tech meetups, universities and most of the VR/AR conferences in the UK. It was not until fairly recently when...
Future Tech Now–Virtual Reality Show
The app consists of an angry, red ant that you can size and position using components recently added to the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity. These include a ...
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud
In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I...
oauth2
AAD Login on HoloLens 2
One of the coolest aspects of HoloLens2 is the iris login as it removes the need for typing on a virtual keyboard. So a cool feature which avoids the need fo...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens–Device Code Flow
This flow allows the auth to happen on a second device which may be more convenient if typing passwords or codes is required on a HoloLens device given that ...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens
I guessed that sooner or later I’m going to want to need to access Microsoft Graph APIs from a HoloLens and I was writing some similar code for a different e...
DirectX
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
glTF & DirectX part3 - architecture
A glB file has the same data as a glTF file but it is combined into one single self-contained binary. To parse these you can read the JSON document and then ...
glTF + DirectX part 2
Often it has not been a priority to provide rendering that looks the same across different platforms but the more the rendering is based on physically correc...
WCF
WCF web api + developer APi keys
I found myself with the requirement of needing custom authorization for a rest-style web API. The requirements would be something along the lines of Netflix,...
WCF Rest Service - WP7 Client
Here is a working project with an extremely simple WCF rest service and a Windows Phone 7 client application using WebClient. WebHttpBinding Service + WP7 ...
wp7
wp7–JSON parsing
Peter Daukintis I’m writing this mainly as a central place to store this code as I need to use it frequently – hopefully it will help others also. Supposing ...
skydrive photo upload wp7
Peter Daukintis I just modified my file upload sample (http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/wp7-skydrive-upload/) to use the PhotoChooserTask to ...
audio
Kinect V2 - Simple Sound Detection C++
This is a very simple post showing an implementation of the detection of a sound, any sound above a threshold, using the Kinect V2 SDK. The sample is written...
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
streamsocket
wp8 streamsocket
Building on previous StreamSocket-related posts http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/streamsocket-example-c-metro/ and http://babaandthepigman.wo...
metro app and kinect voice control
Peter Daukintis Recently I had a need to reacquaint myself with the latest Kinect SDK. v1.6 has just been released and is downloadable from here Kinect SDK. ...
nodejs
MS Band Server – sensor data in a browser
Chatting recently with Mike Brondbjerg recently about some data visualisation ideas around using the Microsoft Band and we came to the conclusion that gettin...
Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io
Peter Daukintis If you haven’t previously done this download your Azure publish settings file from here https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.asp...
websockets
Kinect 4 Windows V2 - in the browser
For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which provided browser compatibility. The general idea is that the Kinect SDK can b...
Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io
Peter Daukintis If you haven’t previously done this download your Azure publish settings file from here https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.asp...
Rx
Face Tracking Native – Kinect 4 Windows v2
Well, with the managed version working in c# (see Face Tracking Kinect 4 Windows V2 - Managed) it should be a breeze to convert the code to a native c++ wind...
Face Tracking – Kinect 4 Windows v2
Since working on the virtual rail project I haven’t had much chance to carry out much in the way of Kinect programming. That all changes now since I ordered...
WAT
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
Web Application Template Push Notifications
Web App Template The Web Application Template (WAT) is a great way to create a presence in the Windows App Stores if you already have a suitable web applicat...
Unity3D
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5
With the recent announcements at GDC2015 from Unity about their new licensing model I thought I would update my Kinect and Unity3d post as now a pro Unity li...
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D)
Mobile VR Recently I have been tracking the surge in interest in virtual reality and things certainly seem to have moved on in the last 20 years! Having expe...
Web API
MS Health API Bot
As we make steady progress from a world where the user input to a computer or mobile device consists of flat two dimensional elements controlled by mouse and...
Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5
I have been following the progression of ASP.NET in particular in relation to the changes made for ASP.NET 5. I’m going to take a look under the cove...
cross-platform
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
Azure Website in 2 mins
Love that you can create a hosted website from the command line with a few simple commands: azure site create --git fromCmdLine copy con index.html <!D...
msband
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
Microsoft Band Heart Rate Sample – UWP
Although very simple I thought this was worth blogging as I didn’t see too many UWP (Universal Windows Platform) samples using the Microsoft Band SDK. I gave...
modelling
HoloLens End-to-End in Unity
In preparation for my session, HoloLens: The Path to Mixed Reality at Future Decoded UK 2016 (the first official HoloLens developer session in the UK) I put ...
3D Models From Blender to HoloLens
There are many ways to source 3D models for use in HoloLens projects; if you are a developer working with 3D artists then you just need to agree an interchan...
mrtk
HoloLens 2 Unreal Project Template
Each time I wanted to create a HoloLens 2 Unreal Engine project I found myself recreating a blank level, setting up a GameMode and configuring the project. L...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens
I guessed that sooner or later I’m going to want to need to access Microsoft Graph APIs from a HoloLens and I was writing some similar code for a different e...
msgraph
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens–Device Code Flow
This flow allows the auth to happen on a second device which may be more convenient if typing passwords or codes is required on a HoloLens device given that ...
Microsoft Graph Auth on HoloLens
I guessed that sooner or later I’m going to want to need to access Microsoft Graph APIs from a HoloLens and I was writing some similar code for a different e...
unreal engine
Azure Speech Studio for Mixed Reality
It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar ...
HoloLens 2 Unreal Project Template
Each time I wanted to create a HoloLens 2 Unreal Engine project I found myself recreating a blank level, setting up a GameMode and configuring the project. L...
WPF
WPF Commanding and Data Annotations Validation
by Peter Daukintis I recently ran into the need to create a simple WPF app with a data form front end and which should provide some simple validation feedbac...
datatemplateselector
datatemplateselector winrt
by Peter Daukintis Having used DataTemplateSelectors previously with WPF and similar on Silverlight/Windows Phone I decided to check out whether they work th...
photo
skydrive photo upload wp7
Peter Daukintis I just modified my file upload sample (http://babaandthepigman.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/wp7-skydrive-upload/) to use the PhotoChooserTask to ...
audiocategory
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
background
metro background audio c# (consumer preview)
Peter Daukintis Some changes occurred in the consumer preview release of Windows 8 regarding background audio; the steps required to get it working are outli...
upload
skydrive upload c# metro
Peter Daukintis A preview of the latest Live SDK for Metro apps can be downloaded here https://connect.microsoft.com/site1226. This is for usage with the Win...
asp.net web api
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
Expression Blend
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
expression blend
metro c# webapi client
Peter Daukintis For my own purposes I wanted to create a test application which I can use as a test-bed to experiment with user interface aspects of Metro. I...
datacontractjsonserializer
wp7–JSON parsing
Peter Daukintis I’m writing this mainly as a central place to store this code as I need to use it frequently – hopefully it will help others also. Supposing ...
json
wp7–JSON parsing
Peter Daukintis I’m writing this mainly as a central place to store this code as I need to use it frequently – hopefully it will help others also. Supposing ...
serialization
wp7–JSON parsing
Peter Daukintis I’m writing this mainly as a central place to store this code as I need to use it frequently – hopefully it will help others also. Supposing ...
image
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
pinch zoom
metro c#–simple transform using touch
Well, this turned out to be pretty easy …… The aim was to carry out a simple image transform with touch; so pinch zoom, translate and rotate. This is how the...
sockets
Streamsocket example c# metro
Peter Daukintis This is a very basic example of socket communication in a c# metro-style application using StreamSocket and StreamSocketListener. It mirrors ...
Nodejs
Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io
Peter Daukintis If you haven’t previously done this download your Azure publish settings file from here https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.asp...
socketio
Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io
Peter Daukintis If you haven’t previously done this download your Azure publish settings file from here https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.asp...
workerrole
Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io
Peter Daukintis If you haven’t previously done this download your Azure publish settings file from here https://windows.azure.com/download/publishprofile.asp...
ASP.NET
Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5
I have been following the progression of ASP.NET in particular in relation to the changes made for ASP.NET 5. I’m going to take a look under the cove...
asp.net5
Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5
I have been following the progression of ASP.NET in particular in relation to the changes made for ASP.NET 5. I’m going to take a look under the cove...
mvc
Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5
I have been following the progression of ASP.NET in particular in relation to the changes made for ASP.NET 5. I’m going to take a look under the cove...
MVC
Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5
I have been following the progression of ASP.NET in particular in relation to the changes made for ASP.NET 5. I’m going to take a look under the cove...
web api
Visual Studio 2015 Preview + ASP.NET 5
I have been following the progression of ASP.NET in particular in relation to the changes made for ASP.NET 5. I’m going to take a look under the cove...
headset
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D)
As mentioned in the previous post Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) I will look at stereoscopic rendering and removing the lens distort...
mobile vr
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D)
As mentioned in the previous post Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) I will look at stereoscopic rendering and removing the lens distort...
visr
Windows Phone Mobile VR (Stereoscopic Rendering + Lens Distortion in Unity 3D)
As mentioned in the previous post Windows Phone Mobile VR (Gyro Head Tracking in Unity3D) I will look at stereoscopic rendering and removing the lens distort...
cli
Azure Website in 2 mins
Love that you can create a hosted website from the command line with a few simple commands: azure site create --git fromCmdLine copy con index.html <!D...
website
Azure Website in 2 mins
Love that you can create a hosted website from the command line with a few simple commands: azure site create --git fromCmdLine copy con index.html <!D...
android
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
ios
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
vs2015
Visual Studio 2015 Preview – Mobile C++
C++ has long been a great option for cross-platform mobile development particularly in the cases where you might have an existing C++ codebase or you have ce...
browser
Kinect 4 Windows V2 - in the browser
For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which provided browser compatibility. The general idea is that the Kinect SDK can b...
javascript
Kinect 4 Windows V2 - in the browser
For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which provided browser compatibility. The general idea is that the Kinect SDK can b...
superwebsocket
Kinect 4 Windows V2 - in the browser
For the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which provided browser compatibility. The general idea is that the Kinect SDK can b...
icons
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
wat
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
wpdev
Windows Store Apps Icon Generator
Originally I developed this icon tool to help people to quickly build windows store and windows phone apps using the Web Application Template which is a to...
azurewebsites
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
git
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
Git
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
source control
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
visual studio
Intro to Git in Visual Studio
I started with Git about three years ago and have used it on and off ever since and it has slowly become my version management system of choice. It can be fr...
k4wv2
Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity3D 5
With the recent announcements at GDC2015 from Unity about their new licensing model I thought I would update my Kinect and Unity3d post as now a pro Unity li...
openframeworks
OPENFRAMEWORKS + KINECT 4 WINDOWS V2 (II)
In my previous post I showed how to get an environment set up with Openframeworks and Kinect V2.0 for Windows Store. I’d like to elaborate on that a little...
avateer
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
body
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
joints
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
orientation
Avateering with Kinect V2 – Joint Orientations
For my own learning I wanted to understand the process of using the Kinect V2 to drive the real-time movement of a character made in 3D modelling software. T...
universal
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
win10
Microsoft Health API - UWP Sample
A few days ago some updates to the Microsoft Band ecosystem were announced including Microsoft Band Web Tiles Preview and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs Previe...
mshealth
Microsoft Band Web Tile
To get data on your Microsoft Band you can use the Microsoft Band SDK from within a mobile application. There is now an easier way to get data onto the band...
webtile
Microsoft Band Web Tile
To get data on your Microsoft Band you can use the Microsoft Band SDK from within a mobile application. There is now an easier way to get data onto the band...
Add-In
Office Add-In with Knockout.js
Lately I have been investigating the new Office add-ins (the ones built on open web tech). Alongside the other additions to the Office platform; Unified APIs...
knockout
Office Add-In with Knockout.js
Lately I have been investigating the new Office add-ins (the ones built on open web tech). Alongside the other additions to the Office platform; Unified APIs...
O365
Office Add-In with Knockout.js
Lately I have been investigating the new Office add-ins (the ones built on open web tech). Alongside the other additions to the Office platform; Unified APIs...
Office
Office Add-In with Knockout.js
Lately I have been investigating the new Office add-ins (the ones built on open web tech). Alongside the other additions to the Office platform; Unified APIs...
processing.js
MS Band Server – sensor data in a browser
Chatting recently with Mike Brondbjerg recently about some data visualisation ideas around using the Microsoft Band and we came to the conclusion that gettin...
sdk
MS Band Server – sensor data in a browser
Chatting recently with Mike Brondbjerg recently about some data visualisation ideas around using the Microsoft Band and we came to the conclusion that gettin...
api
MS Health API Bot
As we make steady progress from a world where the user input to a computer or mobile device consists of flat two dimensional elements controlled by mouse and...
bot
MS Health API Bot
As we make steady progress from a world where the user input to a computer or mobile device consists of flat two dimensional elements controlled by mouse and...
health
MS Health API Bot
As we make steady progress from a world where the user input to a computer or mobile device consists of flat two dimensional elements controlled by mouse and...
virtual reality
Windows Phone Mobile VR – VISR-VR SDK
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR /uncategorized/vr/windows%20phone/2016/01/25/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update.html Microsoft Virtual Academy...
botr
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
xamarin
Band on the Run
I promised earlier (/ms%20band/uwp/2015/12/01/fake-microsoft-band.html) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I hav...
tilt brush
Democratising 3D Content Creation
Since returning my main focus to the fields of Augmented and Virtual reality I have experienced more light-bulb moments than at any time in my previous caree...
vive
Democratising 3D Content Creation
Since returning my main focus to the fields of Augmented and Virtual reality I have experienced more light-bulb moments than at any time in my previous caree...
AR
Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track
Every 10-15 years we see fundamental paradigm shifts in computing; we’ve seen Desktop computing, Web, Mobile and…well we are seeing the rise of artificial in...
Future Decoded 2016
Future Decoded UK 2016 AR/VR Track
Every 10-15 years we see fundamental paradigm shifts in computing; we’ve seen Desktop computing, Web, Mobile and…well we are seeing the rise of artificial in...
voice
HoloLens Voice Commands
This is the fourth part of a series. Steps to create the demo project that I used in my Future Decoded UK 2016 presentation. To get set up with the HoloToolk...
fps
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
low poly
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
normal map
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
normals
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
optimization
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
texture
HoloLens–The Path to 60fps (Normal Maps)
This time around we were looking to render glass containers with associated labelling which needed to be clear and legible and the glass should look as reali...
editor
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
materials
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
models
HoloLens Content Pipeline (remap materials)
As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement thro...
ANGLE
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
angle
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
fbx
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
import
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
opengl
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
opengles2
HoloLens FBX Loading c++
Now, there are a few reasons why you might want the ability to load FBX files; maybe you want to load 3D model files dynamically or you are working on a nati...
decimation
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
mesh
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
simplygon
HoloLens–optimising with Simplygon
In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or ...
Future Decoded
Future Decoded 2017 Mixed Reality
It was great to see all of the mixed reality content at this years Future Decoded event and was also fun to take part with a couple of technical ‘deep dive’ ...
Immersive
Future Decoded 2017 Mixed Reality
It was great to see all of the mixed reality content at this years Future Decoded event and was also fun to take part with a couple of technical ‘deep dive’ ...
azurestorage
Holograms Catalogue–To the Cloud
In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I...
catalogue
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
cloud
Holograms Catalogue–Loading Models
The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera mot...
AI
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
cognitive
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
Cognitive
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
translator
mixed reality real-time translator
Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentenc...
ants
Future Tech Now–Virtual Reality Show
The app consists of an angry, red ant that you can size and position using components recently added to the Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity. These include a ...
coroutines
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
DX11
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
fluent
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
treeview
glTF & DirectX
As we begin to witness the ascent of mixed reality into the next generation primary human-computer interaction environment it’s not entirely unreasonable to ...
code
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
viewer
glTF & DirectX final part
I spent many years programming with C++ in my earlier career but over the last few years for me it has taken a back seat to C# and javascript. C++ as a langu...
a-frame
WebVR + HoloLens
So, put on your HoloLens, go to that page and click on the HMD icon in the bottom right and you will see a giant funky sun in front of you!
WebVR
WebVR + HoloLens
So, put on your HoloLens, go to that page and click on the HMD icon in the bottom right and you will see a giant funky sun in front of you!
webvr
WebVR + HoloLens
So, put on your HoloLens, go to that page and click on the HMD icon in the bottom right and you will see a giant funky sun in front of you!
evangelism
Mixed Reality Evangelism
I have given many talks since then ranging from tech meetups, universities and most of the VR/AR conferences in the UK. It was not until fairly recently when...
performance
Shader Stereo instancing HoloLens
Now rendering stereo views for an immersive experience can be done in a number of different ways but it is very efficient to use as there is no need to send ...
shaders
Shader Stereo instancing HoloLens
Now rendering stereo views for an immersive experience can be done in a number of different ways but it is very efficient to use as there is no need to send ...
stereoscopic
Shader Stereo instancing HoloLens
Now rendering stereo views for an immersive experience can be done in a number of different ways but it is very efficient to use as there is no need to send ...
aad
AAD Login on HoloLens 2
One of the coolest aspects of HoloLens2 is the iris login as it removes the need for typing on a virtual keyboard. So a cool feature which avoids the need fo...
login
AAD Login on HoloLens 2
One of the coolest aspects of HoloLens2 is the iris login as it removes the need for typing on a virtual keyboard. So a cool feature which avoids the need fo...
azure function
Blender in Azure
Blender has been receiving some well-deserved attention recently. In particular some big companies (including Microsoft) who understand the importance of thi...
simlygon
Simplygon in Azure
Before I begin I want to credit team members from Microsoft CSE (commercial Software Engineering) as the effort was shared…
speech
Azure Speech Studio for Mixed Reality
It is not uncommon that a Mixed Reality experience requires more user guidance than traditional applications; partially because the user may not be familiar ...
mrtk3
AAD Login HoloLens2 - MRTK3 Update
What’s the first thing that anyone creating any enterprise app will need to work out?
Industrial Metaverse
Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...
Metaverse
Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...
USD
Path to the Industrial Metaverse
I recently gave a talk at the London Tech Summit 2022 on my thoughts around metaverse technology and more specifically, the Industrial Metaverse. It has been...