Enabling Windows 10 Hyper-V

Developing for HoloLens requires that you are developing on a machine with Windows 10. It should be a 64-bit version and must be Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, or Education editions, not Windows 10 Home. If you have the Home edition, you can upgrade to Pro via the Windows Store for $99; search for Windows 10 Pro.

You must enable Hyper-V (hypervisor) on your system to use the HoloLens emulator. Hyper-V allows you to run virtual machines on your host PC. After all, HoloLens is a separate computer unto itself, running Windows 10. When we run a HoloLens emulator, we are basically firing up a virtual machine in our computer that is pretending to be a HoloLens device.

To enable Hyper-V, follow the following steps:

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