Mixed Reality Toolkit(MRTK) supports in-editor input simulation. Simply run your scene by clicking Unity’s play button. Use these keys to simulate input.

• Press W, A, S, D keys to move the camera.

• Hold the right mouse button and move the mouse to look around.

• To bring up the simulated hands, press Space bar(Right hand) or left Shift key(Left hand).

• To keep simulated hands in the view, press T or Y key.

• To rotate simulated hands, press Q or E(horizontal) / R or F(vertical).

In this section we will install Windows Mixed Reality developer tools and learn about how to use them.

The HoloLens Emulator lets you test holographic applications on your PC without a physical HoloLens. It also includes the HoloLens development toolset.

Can the HoloLens Emulator run on my device?

Before installing the emulator, make sure your PC meets the following hardware requirements:

• 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education

• 64-bit CPU

• CPU with 4 cores (or multiple CPUs with a total of 4 cores)

• 8 GB of RAM or more

• • Hardware-assisted virtualization

  • Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)

  • Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

• GPU requirements

  • DirectX 11.0 or later

  • WDDM 1.2 graphics driver or later (1st gen)

  • WDDM 2.5 graphics driver (HoloLens 2 Emulator)

  • The emulator might work with an unsupported GPU, but will be significantly slower

• You need to enable "Hyper-V" feature on your device before you can use the Emulator.

How to check or enable "Hyper-V" settings?

How to install or update the Emulator?

The Windows Device Portal for HoloLens lets you configure and manage your device remotely over Wi-Fi or USB. The Device Portal is a web server on your HoloLens that you can connect to from a web browser on your PC. The Device Portal includes many tools that will help you manage your HoloLens and debug and optimize your apps.

How to setup device portal?

• Turn on your HoloLens device.

• Tab your wrist(HoloLens 2) or make a bloom gesture(HoloLens 1) to initiate Windows menu.

• Open the Settings > Update & Security.

• Select For Developers tab on the right hand panel.

• Enable "use developer features" by toggling on/off button.

• Scroll down at the For Developer settings to enable "Device Portal".

• Go back to all settings page by clicking "Home" on the left hand panel and select "Network & Internet" settings.

• Select "Wifi" tab on the left, if it is not already selected.

• Select the wifi you are connected to and click on "Advanced Options".

• Scroll down and write down the IPV4 address.

• You will type in this IP address to your browser to reach to your device portal.

• You might see a connection Alert as shown below:

• Go ahead and click Advanced button and click Proceed to <your IP address>(unsafe).

• Congrats, you made it to your device portal.

• Click Views on the right hand panel and select "Live Preview" to see the camera view of your HoloLens.

• You can turn off PV camera if you would like to share or record what you are seeing through your HoloLens but do not want to capture your environment.

• You can see the videos recorded or screenshots you snapped by asking Cortana here, on the Videos and Photos section, if you enabled voice commands.