HoloLens emulator allows you to test holographic apps on your PC without a physical HoloLens and comes with the HoloLens development toolset. The emulator uses a Hyper-V virtual machine on windows.
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DEP6953: Failed to launch remote debugger
My setup
HoloLens
Windows 10 October 2018 Update (10.0.17763.134)
Desktop
Windows 10 Enterprise
Visual Studio Community 2017 Version
Unity 2018.2.19f1 (Latest 7th December 2018 Update)
The Problem
I am unable to deploy any application to the…

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Issue using JsonConvert.SerializeObject with Unity IL2CPP scripting backend
I'm having issues using the JsonConver.SerializeObject function to serialize a string when using Unity IL2CPP scripting backend. My understanding is that since JsonConvert uses reflection IL2CPP cannot use this function because it is pre-compiled. …

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Can't find hyper-v virtual machine for HoloLens 2 emulator
does anybody know why I can't see the HoloLens 2 emulator as a virtual machine in the hyper-v manager? As far as I know, it is hyper-v based. I'm doing this so that I can change the default virtual switch to an external one (virtual as well) so that…

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Hololens Emulator - Unity application always sleeping?
When opening an application from the Hololens after the initial successful deploy run, the program no longer runs and instead displays that it is sleeping as such:
This is repeatable if I do the following steps:
Deploy to Emulator (without…

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SendMessage doesn't launch function (HoloLens/Unity/C#)
Goal: Changing from one scene to another using auditive controls.
Problem: When launching the application in the HoloLens Emulator, the first scene opens. When saying "Next Step", the HoloLens does recognize the sentence, but the sendMessage doesn't…

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Cannot choose HoloLens Emulator as debug target in Visual Studio
I have Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, and HoloLens Emulator is in the list of debug target, however when I click on it, nothing happens. No error, no log in Output or Error Window.
In Hyper-V, I cannot see any virtual machine in the list, everything…

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Holoens 2 - VLC sensor frames have incorrect timestamps (frames out of order)
Im using the following repo to access and save the device streams:
https://github.com/microsoft/HoloLens2ForCV
When recording using StreamRecorder it seems that the timestamps returned by all of the visible light cameras are frequently incorrect…

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Why TCP connection doesn't work in HoloLens emulator (1st generation)?
I searched the entire Internet looking for information, but it did not help. The main problem: I can’t connect from the HoloLens emulator to my server.
How my code works:
I am starting the server. He is waiting for connections. When a client…

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How can I recognise HoloLens gestures in C#?
So the last days I searched the Internet on how to recognise HoloLens gestures in C#/Unity (for instance a normal Tap Gesture).
I for instance tried the GestureRecognizer but it seems to be outdated and I was not able to get it to work.
I tested it…

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Web Cam support in Hololens Emulator
Can laptop's web camera used in the latest Hololens emulator ?
I'm following this tutorial https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/mr-azure-302 to integrate MS Computer Vision API into Hololens.
I want to test this in the Hololens…

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How to modify Hololens Emulator's Human Input script, so that I can directly set the camera's rotation?
I am trying to make a project where a Gyroscope controls the Hololens rotation in the Hololens Emulator. The problem is that I don't know how to modify the script that sends the default keyboard and mouse input to the Hololens VM.
Example situation:…

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Unable to deploy on HoloLens
My setup
HoloLens
Windows 10 October 2018 Update (10.0.17763.134)
Desktop
Windows 10 Enterprise
Visual Studio Community 2017 Version
Unity 2018.2.19f1 (Latest 7th December 2018 Update)
The Problem
I am unable to deploy any application to the…

Suryavanshi Virendrasingh
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Unity Hololens project missing SDK (that is certainly installed)
I made a stackoveflow account just to post about this since it's been bothering me for 3 days time (tinkering after work so not much time every day). And this is my first post so please be forgiving if I break a few rules :)
My problem is that…

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What's the difference between HandDraggable and GestureAction scripts in the Holotoolkit?
These two scripts, HandDraggable.cs and GestureAction.cs, seem to do very similar things. The MR Academy implements the GestureAction script. What is the difference between these 2 scripts and when would you use one or the other?

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What is the best way to debug IL2CPP code?
With Unity doing away with the .NET scripting backend we have been using the IL2CPP scripting backend so we can get used to it. We have having a very hard time debugging c++ code as the code files created do not use the same method names from the…

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