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10+ Best HoloLens Apps (Free Download From MS Store)
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Microsoft HoloLensis the first self-contained, holographic computer that enables you to fully interact with your digital content and holograms.
ThisVR headsetis a very powerful Windows 10 device that has opened the path for next-generation technology.
There are already tens ofappscompatible withHoloLens. In this article, we’re going to list the best HoloLens and HoloLens 2 apps.
Don’t forget to keep an eye on the WindowsStorebecause more apps soon come, as HoloLens is becoming more and more popular.
What are the best HoloLens apps right now?
HoloTour
HoloTourlets you explore the beauty and history of old Rome or uncover the hidden secrets of Machu Picchu.
Thanks to its unique combination of 360-degree video, spatial sound, and holographic scenery, you’ll believe that you’re really there. You can visit the world’s biggest cities with HoloTour.
Melissa, your personal tour guide, provides a fresh perspective on your surroundings, as well as interesting information.
She’ll help you learn interesting facts and uncover rich historical insights. You can use your gaze, gesture, and voice to naturally interact with the world around you.
HoloTour
INSIGHT HEART
If you’re fascinated by the human body, we recommend that you try outINSIGHT HEART.
This is the first app from a planned series for the medical education of the future.
As its name suggests, this app guides you through the functions of the heart. You can actively engage in the learning process and control the heart by gesture or voice control. You can zoom, rotate and scale a high-resolution heart hologram.
INSIGHT HEART also shows impressive visual effects of myocardial infarction, arterial hypertension and atrial fibrillation.
All these highly detailed visual elements offer a better learning experience.
INSIGHT HEART
HoloBeam Tech
Sci-Fi is more real than ever thanks toHoloBeam Tech. Valorem, the company behind this impressive app, has managed to create an innovative telepresence technology that will definitely amaze you.
This holographic streaming technology captures the likeness of a person using a stereoscopic camera as 3D point cloud data.
The point cloud data is then streamed across the Internet. Microsoft HoloLens decodes and renders the holographic stream, providing a good representation of the sender’s likeness.
Although this demo may seem a bit rough for some users, we’re sure that Valorem will improve HoloBeam Tech’s image quality in the future.
HoloBeam Tech
HoloStudy Demo
HoloLens will definitely be one of the most popular learning supports in the future. This device has a huge educational potential and we’re sure more companies will exploit it in the future.
HoloStudy Demooffers is a series of geology, physics, chemistry, and biology lessons. You can set off on an incredible journey with virtual professors, to better understand the complexity of science.
Although this is only the demo version of the app, the information quality and the presentation manner will make you fall in love with this app.
HoloStudy Demo
Land of Dinosaurs
Jurassic Park fans will definitely love this HoloLens app.Land of Dinosaursis actually a portal that allows users to enter a time warp to 65 million years ago when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
You’ll meet the fierce Titanosaurus, the largest dinosaur that ever lived, as well as other impressive creatures.
The Land of Dinosaurs app is perfect for museums, schools or other educational institutions, or regular dinosaur fans. For more information, check out the video below:
Land of Dinosaurs
HoloFlight
HoloFlightis another interesting HoloLens app from Valorem. It allows users to visualize real flight data in 3D as holograms.
You can walk around and explore various parts of the visualized flight space, and zoom in to see specific details, including the control tower’s point of view.
The app also offers an introductory tutorial when launched for the first time. You can open the tutorial at any time by sayingShow Tutorial.
⇒Download HoloFlight
Fragments
This holographic game proves that HoloLens is also a powerful gaming tool. You’ll play the role of a detective gifted with the unique ability to investigate crimes based on memories.
You’ll examine holographic crime scenes and gather clues blended into your reality.
Use your wits and sense of observation to solve the crimes and make the perpetrators pay for their deeds.
⇒Download Fragments
TV Online Univ
As its name suggests, this is a cross-platform app that you can use to watch TV. Yes, you read that right.
You can now watch TV using your HoloLens headset. This was not even possible when Microsoft first launched the device.
Moreover, TV Online Univ is compatible with your Window 8.1 and Windows 10 computer, Windows phone, and Xbox One console. It supports Continuum as well.
The app also features a Live Tile that provides you with more information on the number of channels and upcoming events.
There is also a program guide that you can use to make sure you won’t miss your favorite TV shoes.
Other interesting features include:
⇒Download TV Online Univ
Robo Raid
DoesSpace Invadersring any bell for you? If it does, then you’ll be more than happy to learn that there’s a modern VR version of this game — well, sort of.
It’s calledRobo Raid. There are no space chickens involved in this game, but the principle remains the same.
As a player, you need to shoot and destroy waves of robots that are constantly attacking you with laser beams.
We’re sure that this mixed reality first-person shooter will impress you. Vicious robot invaders will break through your walls trying to shoot you.
Don’t sit still, otherwise, you’ll die. You’ll need to move constantly in order to avoid enemy fire.
You can use your gaze, gesture, and voice to attack and destroy the robots.
⇒Download Robo Raid
My Notes
My Notes is now available on the HoloLens. This is perhaps the best note-taking app for the HoloLens.
It supports a series of useful features that help you to stay organized.
You can use it to create task lists, shopping lists, write down event details, and more. The best part is that you can then sync your note to OneDrive.
So, if you wrote down an important reminder using your HoloLens device, you can then access and edit it from your computer.
⇒Download My Notes
Other interesting HoloLens apps
There are hundreds of HoloLens 1 and HoloLens 2 apps available in the Microsoft Store presently. Of course, we can’t cover all of them in this guide.
There are many more interesting apps worth your attention. Apart from the apps listed above, here’s what may also interest you:
As you can see, the HoloLens app universe is pretty spectacular although the HoloLens is a relatively new device.
Taken into account its impressive capabilities, we’re sure that more and more developers will turn their attention to HoloLens in the near future.
If you’ve come across other interesting HoloLens apps, feel free to use the comment section below to tell us more about your experience.
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Madalina Dinita
Networking & Security Specialist
Madalina has been a Windows fan ever since she got her hands on her first Windows XP computer.
She is interested in all things technology, especially emerging technologies – AI and DNA computing in particular.
Prior to joining the WindowsReport team, she worked in the corporate world for a number of years.
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Madalina is a Windows fan since forever, especially interested in AI, emerging technologies, privacy, and security.
