HoloLens Emulator with Visual Studio 2017 RC

Question

Has anyone of you successfully managed to install the HoloLens Emulator with only Visual Studio 2017 present on the system?

Paddle

Answer 1

Per the install instructions:

If you are using Visual Studio 2017 and do not have Visual Studio 2015 installed, you must update the registry to work around a prerequisite check Add or locate this key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Analog Add a REG_SZ value in that key with name: “OverrideHoloLensSDKPrerequisites”, and value: “TRUE” If you are on an x64 version of Windows, also add or locate this key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Analog Add a REG_SZ value in that key with name: “OverrideHoloLensSDKPrerequisites”, and value: “TRUE”

You can use VS 2017 if you never installed VS2015 by doing a registry "fix"

Charwoman

Can you share screenshot ? – Ahmed

Answer 2

Based on the HoloLens Forums, it says:

The Project template for Holographic hasn't been updated for Visual Studio 2017 yet. Only Visual Studio 2015 is supported at this time.

So for the meantime, you need to use Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 to use the HoloLens emulator

Macpherson

Yep, but you can also use the Holographic Simulator in Unity 5.5 too! – Macpherson

Answer 3

On vs2017rc...

Install hololens emulator and vs2015 as required by ms / run holographicapp trought templates / copy thé son ans project files from vs2015/projects to vs2017 project / open it with vs2017 (it will run fine and successfull buil on emulator).

Uninstall vs2015 trought vs2015 installer (All basic features)

Run holographic again in vs2017...And start modify...

Hassett