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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My #WalktheWorld #MR app died mid 2025 when Microsoft decommissioned the Bing Elevation API. Found a way to revive it using different APIs - leaner & faster. Walk the World 6.0.2.0 landed in Microsoft Store again yesterday, HoloLens 2 1st. More platforms coming. apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p6sv...

MR picture of Mount Rainier in a living room

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Yay! Finally my custom built rig is on a 26200 #Windows build

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Well I'll be bucketed. #Northernlights over #Amersfoort! Visible from my first floor front window! It even shines trough the cloud. I must say it takes a camera to really see it but still

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#Unity moves fast and break things, in this case my #MRTK3 demo on #Apple #VisionPro on slightly higher versions - as happens often. I spent some (okay, a bit too much) time on trying to find out why, and came up with a solution making the app run again localjoost.github.io/MRTK3-apps-o...

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

About last night... participating in a citizen science project sometimes tells you things you'd rather not know #fireworks #pollution #particlematter

Graphs showing PM2.5 and PM10 pollution during New Year's Eve due to fireworks

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

One of those days... and it isn't even Monday

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

For HoloATC for Snap Inc. #Spectacles, I made a component to select a location specifically on the floor. I spun that off into a reusable component and described how to use it - and for the more technically inclined, how it works. localjoost.github.io/A-Lens-Studi...

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

For fun, I decided to enter my HoloATC for Snap Inc. Spectacles app into their 4th 'Community challenge' some time ago. Didn't expect much from it, as there's lot of competition from highly talented young people. Kind of forgot about it, too. Until yesterday evening:

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

How to be a leader and not be an *sshole, or how a normal person not coming from a high socio-economical class more or less accidentally became a country's PM, was in the hot seat during various natural disasters, a terrorist attack, and a global pandemic. And became mother while doing all that.

Book cover "A different kind of power" by Jacinda Ardern

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Look what I found back. With recipes from lots of MVPs (former) Microsofties and community members (including @scott.hanselman.com @maryjofoley.bsky.social @papa.dev @chriswoodruff.bsky.social @richcampbell.bsky.social etc. From 2011 #mvpbuzz 😁

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

9 years ago I built my first real #MixedReality app, HoloATC, for #HoloLens 1, in #Unity. I just completed a port - or actually a complete rewrite) - for #Snapchat #Spectacles. If you have one, give it a try! It is my first XR venture outside Unity my-lenses.snapchat.com/28249103-810...

A Mixed Reality app showing models of aircraft flying above a map of Heathrow, in a yellow kitchen

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Well, I must say *this* is a surprise. I assumed my stint as an MVP would end when Microsoft left the XR field. Lo and behold: last year I was a Mixed Reality Development / Windows Development MVP, this year I am a proud Windows Development / Developer Tools MVP. #mvpbuzz

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Thank you. Let me add some poppies to that. These are growing at my allotment to attract pollinators for the veggies. Their ancestors I grew from seed I got from my now deceased father in law, and as they self seed now, also double as a living memory.

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

And here we are, 30 years later. We celebrated with a dinner friends and family yesterday evening - those that are still amongst us - in our favorite restaurant. Some brought their kids who were not born then, yet are now at the same age as us on this picture 😁 Love you still as I did that day 💞

Couple wedding attire looking lovingly at each other

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

And @wildermuth.com takes the stage (showing an image of a Commodore 64)

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If you think you have seen it all 😁#FutureTech

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

12 years ago. My Surface Pro 1 with my wife's Surface RT with a white touch keyboard, which a fellow MVP brought back from the USA. Times have changed

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Let me add one. This is Crocus sieberi subsp. sublimis 'Tricolor', it sometimes flowers even before New Year's Eve. Not this year though, they appeared only at the end of January

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In part 5 of my series " #LensStudio for the confused #Unity developer" we implement the three actual buttons on the hand menu to re-create the grid, drop cubes on the floor, and move them back to their original position. localjoost.github.io/Lens-Studio-...

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

In part 4 of my series "#LensStudio for the confused #Unity developer" I show how you can implement a #HoloLens/#MRTK style 'hand menu' in your Lens, allow you to control various aspects it localjoost.github.io/Lens-Studio-...

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The aircraft tracker? Tbh I have no idea where I bought it anymore, and also did not remember what. It was, what? 5-6 years ago. Does this picture help? It comes with a wire with an antenna that is on a window still, the device itself sites behind a bed in the spare bedroom)

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

For those curious to know what it is I actually we are building in my blog series "Lens Studio for the confused Unity developer" - the lens "SnapCubeBouncer" is now up at specs.cool. Follow the instructions, and you can play with it.

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In part 3 of my series #LensStudio for the confused #Unity developer", I show code to smash cubes with your hands, and also explain how you can make them bounce off the spatial map (and thus real objects). Includes occlusion as well. localjoost.github.io/Lens-Studio-...

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

#Alexa reminds me sometimes of my late, slightly deaf mother, in the sense that she does not quite understand you but pretends she does, and tries to make the best of it, even if what she hears does not really make sense. I had asked to remind me to upgrade the HOLOLENS.

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

YES! With the latest update, I can now finally run Android apps from my non-Samsung phone in a window on #Windows11 ! #Windows #PhoneLink

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Great. I'll send you my tank in return. This was taken like last week :)

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

It feels like I am finally getting somewhere with #Spectacles #lensstudio. Looks a bit familiar maybe? 😁

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"At #Christmas eve, you will be visitied by three spirits" 😁

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Blogged: Running .NET 8.0 isolated functions and hashtag#Azurite Storage in hashtag#Docker on a hashtag#Raspberry Pi 5. Full step by step manual for repatriating your functions to self hosting, including - as always - sample source code. localjoost.github.io/Running-NET-...

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I think this cartoon is a perfect rendition of the current state of mind of The Netherlands, 2024.

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is *quite* out of my wheelhouse, not to mention my comfort zone - and far from what you are used from me writing about - but not only did I get a simple Hello World .NET 8 isolated function to run now, but now it reads and write from #Azurite. All on #docker containers, #Raspberry PI 5.

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Well I seem to have have made my very first #Spectacles #lens. A simple spatial mesh visualizer. The device seems to be scanning the environment at a pretty aggressive rate. It has, like all devices, some issues with very dark objects but it seems to be very fast, and has quite a wide throw.

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

As both a professional Mixed Reality developer and an avid hobby gardener stuck in dark mid winter I can really dig this flower drawing app, pardon 'lens' on the #Snap Spectacles. Hand tracking is pretty good, as is the imagery. 'Holograms' look very solid are and hardly translucent at all. WYSIWYG

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Hello World! Santa was a bit early this year. 😁Tried a #Snap #Spectacles and am really amazed. This is a pretty awesome device especially in this form factor!

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Running an .NET 8.0 #Azure 4.0 function in a #docker container on a #RaspberryPi 5. Quite an interesting journey, especially for someone who had not even touched docker since yesterday

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Then why offer it to me in the first place and keep the update icon decorated with a blue dot anyway?

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Hi, can you double check these settings for me ?

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

To assess the #Meta #Quest3 Mixed Reality capabilities I re-created the very 1st HoloLens 1 demo app I made, 8 years ago. But now based on MRKT3. I am impressed. Full pass-through, no boundary, superbe hand tracking, and a full spatial mesh. For 1/8th of the price of other head sets. (video)

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

@thetweetofgod.bsky.social I hate to say this, but this infallibility things becomes harder and harder to believe.

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Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik @localjoost.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Does anyone know what this signifies? "Invalid Handle"?

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