Programming Envirionment for Microsoft Hololens

Getting Started
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We have been trying to set up the HoloLens programming environment by following the steps listed in Holograms 100 and Holograms 101.

For this, we setup the tools listed in Install the tools - Mixed Reality | Microsoft Learn.

In particular, we are struggling with the tools installed required for the tutorial. We noticed that Unity3d.com only supports Unity 2017.1.0f3 version (which has no Windows Store component in build setting) and we are having quite a difficult time to reproduce the results which being illustrated in the recorded tutorials - the speakers are using Unity 5.6. Either it crashes in Unity IDE or Visual Studio 2017.

I wonder whether anyone guides us to reproduce the results of Holograms 100 and Holograms 101 with Visual Studio 2017 Pro and Unity 2017.1.0f3.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/w

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5.6 and 2017.1.0f3 are almost the same — I doubt the difference is due to that. You probably just didn’t install the Windows Store target when you selected optional parts in the Unity installer. Just run it again, and check those checkboxes more carefully.

If you really do need to run 5.6, that’s still available here.

Any crashes are a much bigger concern, I’d think. Visual Studio isn’t technically needed for Unity development (you can use any text editor, or my favorite, ScriptInspector 3), but if Unity crashes, that’s obviously a problem. I suggest posting more details about that.