The proposal for The Future of Augmented Reality project was submitted for review. The project proposal is uploaded to the Documents page and is publicly available. Furthermore, the team at HoloFine has begun to explore Microsoft's official HoloLens documentation. Microsoft's documentation can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/ .

The HoloFine team focused on in-depth analysis of HoloLens development case studies that are published in the official documentation. Our objective is to establish a strong understanding of current applications that have been developed for the HoloLens, as well as exploring the various tools that are currently available to HoloLens developers. The goal of this weeks is to form a basis of understanding of the HoloLens development process as well as potentially discover and shortcomings.

Analysed Case Studies:

• Building HoloSketch
• Lessons from the Lowe's Kitchen
• The Making of Galaxy Explorer for HoloLens 2
• Using Spacial Sound in RoboRaid

During the week of October 20th - 26th HoloLens was inspired by the Making of Galaxy Explorer for HoloLens 2 article from last week and wanted to further explore the direct manipulation functionality of the application. The HoloLens 2 is supposedly able to emulate natural interaction with virtual objects which, if true, is a ground breaking accomplishment in augmented/virtual reality technology. Users are able to interact with a virtual world using just their hands, no controllers or remotes required. Microsoft has a fully documented list of features for direct manipulation which can be found here.

During this week the HoloFine team explored academic resources about the use of augmented reality devices and how they will affect our lives going forward. We did not strictly limit this exercise to the confines of the HoloLens as we felt it would be valuable to explore the broader concept and it's potential to impact society. The following are academic papers that we have been analyzing.

• Augmented Reality: Where We Will All Live by John Peddie
• Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality: Empowering Human, Place and Business by Timothy Jung, et al.
• Simulation and Visualization of Volcanic Phenomena Using Microsoft Hololens: Case of Vulcano Island (Italy) by Ali Asgary, et al.
• Pedicle screw navigation using surface digitization on the Microsoft HoloLens by Florentin Liebmann, et al.

These articles dive into practical deployment of the HoloLens in specific applications such as spinal surgery as well as theoretical implications of a society that is built around augmented reality.

During this week the HoloFine team started to collect their research into our main ideas of Functionalities, Case Studies, and Future Applications for augmented reality technology. We started our writing process on the first draft of our report with our current research, more research may be needed for our main ideas in order to have a true in depth analysis. We started to form our main ideas into sections of the report and began the writing of our analysis.

During this week the HoloFine team continues the writing process of our analysis. We have also researched further into the functionalities of the HoloLens to provide a deeper in-depth analysis and to flush out the research we have. We did so through the documentation and developer tools that are open sourced and provided by Microsoft. Specifically, we looked at both the Head and Eye Gaze functionality and the Spatial Mapping functionality. These topics are fundamental to how AR works because they track the users physical movements, and provides a detailed representation of real world surfaces respectively.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/gaze-in-directx

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/spatial-mapping-in-directx

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