Getting Started with Application Development for HoloLens using Unity3D - Skill Prerequisites

Prerequisites Skill for HoloLens Application Development

It would be great if you have the following skill set. Still don't worry if do not have all the skills, but its time for you to brush up and learn some new skills. Happy Learning :-)

• Unity - Its an game development tool with customizable and easy to use editor and it quite easy to learn here is the official web page link where you can download it https://unity3d.com/ , and it has a lot of resources to get started with and it too have a strong community to support your queries.
•  3D Modelling and Animation - Its a must have skill, if you have this skill you can do lot of awesome things in mixed reality world. You can use any of the following tools Blender, 3DsMax or Maya or what ever you prefer. It would be great if you are comfortable with Blender bcoz its an
  Open Source 3D creation tool and it too have a strong community.
• C# - This is the piece which will add life to your imagination. Here are few resources which can help you to get started with http://csharp-station.com/Tutorial/CSharp/Lesson01.
• Basic Idea on what is HoloLens and its features - https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us/developers
• A little knowledge on using Visual studio IDE - https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/ 

That's it this should be more than enough to get started with. 

In our next post we will look into setting up the development environments.