This app is designed for university students who have moved away from their families and are living alone, offering a fun and engaging way to cook at home while staying connected with family or friends. It blends cooking tutorials with interactive social features, making home cooking a shared, joyful experience.
- Displaying the list of ingredients
- The recipe with necessary steps for the user to follow
- Cooking timer
- Animated food ingredient characters with tips and encouragment
- Video streaming to the web application
- Highlighting fingers from the web app user
- Taking Screenshots and recording videos
- Connect a Hololens 2 device to the computer with USB.
- Set the Hololens 2 device to developer mode. Go to Settings -> Update -> For developers. Enable Use developer features.
- Open the project 3500_2 or 3500_3 in the folder KitchenConnectGlasses with Unity.
- Open Edit -> Project Settings -> XR Plug-in Management -> Project Validation. In the Validation Rules, select the Windows Icon and click on the Fix all button if it exists.
- Open File -> Build Settings -> Universal Windows Platform. Click on the Build button and build it in a folder.
- Open the .sln file generated in the build folder with Visual Studio.
- In Visual Studio, select the compilation options drop-down and select the "Device" option. Select the debug mode drop-down and select the "Release" option.
- In Visual Studio, open the debug menu on top. Select "Start Without Debugging" to build and run the app on Hololens 2.
- Open the application 3500_2 (Tomato Egg Salad) or 3500_3 (Tomato Mushroom Pasta) in Hololens.
- Follow the steps in the recipe on the right. Tick the checkbox of each step when it is done.
- The ingredients are listed on the left. Users can put the ingredients prepared beneath it.
- The highlighting finger is controlled by the web application users to point out where they want the AR application user to look at (Simulation only).
- Use the clock button to start the timer when needed.
- Characters of ingredients (such as egg and tomato) will provide some hints and encouragment during the cooking process.
- A congratulation message will pop up when all the steps are done.
- Look at your wrist. When the Windows icon appears, click it, and a menu window will pop up. Click the camera button, and you can take a screenshot of the current screen by completing the prompted gesture.
- Live stream of the hololens feed
- Recipe book & ability to edit recipe steps
- Photo album page
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Open Microsoft hololens application and choose to the live stream option
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Leave this open on the screen
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Open OBS or an equivalent streaming device, and choose to stream to Youtube
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On a diffrent computer -
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Once the stream is active copy this part of the youtube URL following the part "v="
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For this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P_xmUdbeus the ID would be "9P_xmUdbeus"
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--- Find this part of the code in index HTML and replace the ID after "embed/" and before "?" with the ID attained in the previous step ---
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<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/[INSERT ID HERE]?autoplay=1&controls=0&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Now when you open this webpage it will receive the stream feed from youtube of the hololens app.