Getting Started with Application Developement for HoloLens using Unity3D - Setting up Dev Environment

 Setting up Dev Environment

In this post we will look into setting up our work development environment.

Prerequisites

• System Requirement
• 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education (The Home edition does not support Hyper-V or the HoloLens emulator)
• 64-bit CPU
• CPU with 4 cores (or multiple CPU's with a total of 4 cores)
• 8 GB of RAM or more
• In the BIOS, the following features must be supported and enabled:
  • Hardware-assisted virtualization
  • Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
  • Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
• GPU (The emulator might work with an unsupported GPU, but will be significantly slower)
  • DirectX 11.0 or later
  • WDDM 1.2 driver or later
• Visual Studio 2015 > Visual Studio 2015 Update3
• HoloLens Emulator > emulator
• Download Unity 5.5 or later -> Unity  
• Vuforia (If you planning to build an application based on AR tracking) -> Vuforia Download 

Additional Tips

1. For more details on tool requirements please refer https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/holographic/install_the_tools  
2. Please also ensure that Hyper-V feature has been enabled on your system. To configure hyper V please refer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v

Getting Started

1. Confirm that your system meets all the basic requirements and ensure that Hyper-V is enabled.
2. Install Unity5.5 or later 
3. Install Visual Studio 2015
4. Install HoloLens Emulator.

Now you ready to get started with HoloLens development :-)