If you've considered exploring HoloLens development, there has never been a better time to get started. During the month of January, you can join other learners committed to taking the first step by signing up for the HoloLens 2 App Development Fundamentals Challenge. When you join, you'll be assigned to one of four teams in a competition to see who will have the most learners complete the required training by January 31st. The training includes a series of hands-on exercises that will show you the basics of HoloLens 2 app development including how to:
• Configure Unity and set up a project with the Mixed Reality Toolkit • Add hand interactions to manipulate objects • Use solvers to create intelligent object placements • Add buttons, dynamic menus and descriptions to objects • Enable eye-tracking and voice commands • Anchor objects to the real world • Add spatial audio to an application • Use speech recognition and transcription • Integrate to cloud services like custom vision and bot services • And much more
Don't have a device? That's okay. While it is always the most fun to interact with your holographic apps via HoloLens, you'll be able to learn the basics and view your progress in Unity's editor or by deploying to the HoloLens 2 Emulator. We suspect it will take around 6 hours to complete all of the exercises once the tools are installed and ready. The modular design of the training makes it's easy to pause and resume again at any time, however, so you'll have the flexibility to go at your own pace as long as you finish by the end of the month to help your team with the win.
If learning about MR is on your to-do list, don't delay! Join the Challenge and find yourself on the leaderboard getting a jump on your 2022 skilling goals.
