Hololens 2 - A developer's perspective

I have been developing various apps and prototypes for the Hololens 2 since the start of 2020. In this video, I'll give a no-nonsense introduction to the Hololens 2. Get to know how it works and what it can do.

[Carson-xr]

The Microsoft Hololens 2 is unfathomable to me. I am absolutely in love with the concept of mixed reality and feel that even more than virtual reality, mixed reality has a lot more utility in the real world such as you said earlier with placing a power point presentation on the wall.

[deepraja]

Thanks, Thanks and Thanks again. As the say it is a tough job to explain in simple way and You did a great justice to this. I would like to learn more and already subscribed . Looking forward to a great deal of learning

[Elrinth]

Great explanation. I've always wanted a computer on the go. Aka one you can use while being out in nature and walking. Obviously the input for this is too limited for my use case. So creating an input device for it would be what I would work on. Some kind of gloves which can simulate typing on keyboard while walking with key-press-feedback for fingers etc.

[tannerquigley]

There's so many possibilities with VR it's insane. Anyone who says it's not cool isn't creative enough. You could map a whole puzzle escape room style game using virtual objects around your house and have people try to solve it there's so many cool things i want to do

[juliopadilla]

Thank you for the great video! However, the company I work at is interested in this technology, however we want to make sure that it would be applicable for remote Maintenance Training. I assume that my trainer and I would need Hololens2 headset, so he can see what I'm doing as he is providing instructions and validating that everything is connected correctly before going to the next step. Would my trainer have the ability to show me a hand tool, that I don't have and show me how to use it on his equipment at his site? Please confirm if I'm correct on my assumptions mentioned above. We are currently using a WebCam for this type of training and the cable makes it difficult, along with having to carry the laptop. The quick movement of the camera causes dizziness and headache. Any help or advise will be greatly appreciated.

[MrRformica]

Hi, Bastiaan! You made great insight into what Hololens really is, thank you. I'm doing research on opportunities of VR/AR application in vocational education, specifically in carpenters' and construction workers' education programs. As I understand nothing in app creation, would be nice to get to know what skills one should have as an educator to create VR/Ar interactive content based on a real-time in situ environment.

[jshi]

Wow, so this is the market that apple is trying to enter. The future looks very interesting.

[thecasualfly]

This could be huge for service industry... going out with a complete manual and guide on how to repair equipment and it scan the environment/equipment and tell you how to fix it/ repair / tear down etc.

[Tolg]

After watching about a dozen videos about Apple’s new Vision Pro, I was getting some déjà vu moments. Your video helped remind me where that’s coming from. There are so many cues here that I think Apple used to design their Vision Pro. And even uses Unity for game development just like Vision Pro. And in some aspects the Halolens 2 is actually better, like having all of the hardware and the battery in the back to balance out the headset.

The Halolens 2 also has richer interactions that the Apple Vision Pro does not yet support such as the physics engine you showed when you picked up the blocks or the shared window you can pin to the wall that others can see. It’s funny because I’ve heard so many reviewers of Apple Vision Pro ask whether you can watch a movie together in your living room with someone else wearing another Apple Vision Pro. And the consensus was, it wasn’t knowing whether that would be supported. Yet the Halolens 2 already does it!

And on top of all of this, amazingly the price of the Halolens in the United States, was $3, 500, the exact same price as the Apple Vision Pro!

[MoonLight-eofm]

Ilike so much hololens 2 so amazing ideas

[jk]

In Singapore, surgeons used hololens 2 to generate hologram of the patient heart to aid them in heart surgery.

[scedab]

interesting we are testing these however find the displays poor, with some degree of colour overlap, blurred text etc. How is the display on yours?

[AdamSowinski]

When you click menu, your hand is under the hologram. Shouldn't it be on top when you click the button?

[petero]

Is the special mesh data accessible through API and can your route it to you own personal server such as GEO location?

[allejong]

Thanksk for the video review. I am waiting for My Hololens 2 and am curious about two things: If You stick an image to an wall and then shut off the hololens 2 for a few days and restart it will that image be at the exact spot You left it? I am curious as an artist if refference images can be applied on an artwork in progress in the studio. Also how steady stay images/3dobjects in 3d space? Do they flicker, or change position because of recalculation of their position sometimes? This has to be exact for my workflow.

[raznhavik]

Hope this makes its way to the VeVe App/Platform....awesome video 🙏🏿

[Videoctr]

Use case idea: Pilots landing an airplane in low visibility conditions might benefit with AR visual augmentation as a navigation aide, outlining the runway, or fly through hoops overlay in a head up display. As well as seeing other plane traffic overlaid in pilot’s field of vision. ADSB and map data feed required. Goal, to create safer, all-weather flying and navigational, situational awareness right down to touchdown. Is this a step closer to full automation?

[codigoBinario]

Thanks for the video! Great to see your perspective on Hololens 2 (an 1). I would like to know your experience with WebXR and your perspective on this platform for Hololens 2. Thanks in advance!

[donroth]

If I am trying to train someone on the operation and software interface of a piece of equipment at a remote location, do the personnel at the remote location have to set up a camera and transmit the images to hololens 2 that I am wearing? Will they need another hololens 2 to see how I operate the equipment and the software as I fiddle with it through my hololens 2?

[innerorganic]

Are there any plans for making the Hololens available for learning a foreign language? I think it'd help a great deal if the Hololens could show an augmented reality "teacher" that could verbally interact with the user, and instruct, correct, suggest, foreign words & phrases for someone learning a new language.