Accomplishments:

The main thing I did this week is about background learning. I started with Windows Mixed Reality documentation. I learnt the basic concepts of mixd reality: the relationship between human, environment, and computer, AR, VR, and MR. I also watched the video about concept of hologram, gaze, gestures, spatial mapping, coordinate systems, and spatial anchors. I installed Windows 10 SDK and checked Unity’s version on Thursday.  After that, I navigated Hololens by wearing the device and go through the apps it has, and try to use gaze, gestures and voice commands to operate the holograms.

Challenges:

I found it is challenging to install tools and set up the environment for Hololens since I am not familiar with Windows system. I tried to run Unity tutorial but it seems have some error at the beginning. I have also read from the Hololens Experiment project that I may have difficulty pairing the device but I will try first.

Plan for the next week:

I will try to finish the set up, go through MR basic courses, and try to use unity to realize:

• Set up Unity for holographic development.
• Make a hologram.
• See the created hologram.
• Visualize gaze using a world-locked cursor.
• Control holograms with the Select gesture.
• Spatial mapping

After that, I am going to think about the main objective I want to achieve for the project.