Through the Interface

HoloLens is here!

I’m happy to report that a HoloLens device has arrived in the Neuchâtel office. I’m meant to be on holiday, next week, but as the kids are signed up for various fun activities of their own I foresee some amount of fooling around with HoloLens in my immediate future. :-) I was pleased to see a few HoloLens devices floating around at the recent Forge DevCon. In some cases it was inevitable – in that one of our speakers, Dona Sarkar, comes from the HoloLens team and also participated in the SFVR Meetup at the DevCon – but a... Read more →

Hands on with HoloLens

One of the highlights of last week’s Autodesk University was the chance to experience a prototype integration of Fusion 360 with Microsoft HoloLens. Here’s a video showing something of the integration as well as a vision of future functionality: To give HoloLens a try at AU 2015, you had to register for a specific timeslot during the 3-day event: the one that suited me was on Wednesday afternoon, after my last solo speaking engagement but before my last panel session. It turned out they were over-subscribed and a little behind – and they were understandably prioritising Autodesk customers in... Read more →

Autodesk University 2015 class proposals

A reminder that proposals are open for AU2015 until May 26th. I’ve just submitted two, myself. Of the three topics I had in mind – relating to VR, AutoCAD I/O and TypeScript – I decided to submit proposals on the first two: I’ll do my best to use TypeScript for one or both of the other two (assuming they get accepted) which will at least give people some exposure to how the technology works. And give some good fodder for blog posts, of course. Here are the abstracts I submitted: Virtual Reality viewing of 3D models using Autodesk's View... Read more →

HoloLens for CAD?

I’m down with some kind of stomach bug, so any thoughts I might have had of writing code today are out the window. But luckily there’s plenty of juicy technology news buzzing around – especially in the AR space – that’s worth reporting on. Interestingly this isn’t the first time this has happened. I wonder if my sickness-addled brain has a tendency to gravitate towards “out there” technologies such as AR & VR (especially since reading John C. Wright’s The Golden Age trilogy – a must for anyone interested in this domain)? I spent a fair amount of time... Read more →