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A game for Microsoft Hololens where the user can create, modify, and remove various types of holographic blocks. This was made to encourage therapeutic movement, promote creativity, and reduce boredom and anxiety in child patients at Mott's Children's Hospital.

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Instructions on building the project:

1. Pull the code. I mean you already did. lol

2. Open the project in Unity

3. Change Unity performance settings:
	(1) Select Edit > Project Settings > Quality
	(2) Select the dropdown under the Windows Store logo and select Fastest.
	    You'll know the setting is applied correctly when the box in the Windows
	    Store column and Fastest row is green.

4. Unity build settings:
	(1) Select File > Build Settings...
	(2) Select Windows Store in the Platform list
	(3) Select Switch Platform. You might need to reopen the Build Settings window
	    after this step.
	(4) Set SDK to Universal 10
	(5) Set Build Type to D3D
	(6) Set Target device to HoloLens

5. Specify the export for Windows Holographic:
	(1) From the Build Settings... window, open Player Settings...
	(2) Select the Settings for Windows Store tab
	(3) Expand the Other Settings group
	(4) In the Rendering section, check the Virtual Reality Supported checkbox to add
	    a new Virtual Reality Devices list and confirm "Windows Holographic" is listed
	    as a supported device.
	(5) Expand the Publisher Settings group
	(6) Make sure that Microphone and SpatialPerception are enabled under capabilities

6. Export the Visual Studio solution:
	(1) Return to the Build Settings window.
	(2) Add all scenes
	(3) Check Unity C# Projects under "Windows Store" build settings.
	(4) Click Build
	(5) Click New Folder and name the folder "App".
	(6) With the App folder selected, click the Select Folder button.
	(7) When Unity is done building, a Windows File Explorer window will appear.
	(8) Open the App folder in File Explorer.
	(9) Open the generated Visual Studio solution HoloClay.sln

7. Build and Deploy:
	Refer to the instuctions in the following website to build and deploy onto the
	HoloLens.

	https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/holographic/Using_Visual_Studio.html

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How to use the App:

Please refer to the product pamphlet for instructions on how to use the app.

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A game for Microsoft Hololens where the user can create, modify, and remove various types of holographic blocks. This was made to encourage therapeutic movement, promote creativity, and reduce boredom and anxiety in child patients at Mott's Children's Hospital.

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