Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik
@localjoost.bsky.social
Senior Lead Unity developer @ Augmedit
Mixed Reality architect
WinDev/DevTech MVP
Fields XR apps for Magic Leap 2, Meta Quest, Spectacles, HoloLens 2, Android Phones
Works with Unity, MRTK, C#, Azure .NET, Windows
Avid gardener
https://localjoost.github.io
Mixed Reality architect
WinDev/DevTech MVP
Fields XR apps for Magic Leap 2, Meta Quest, Spectacles, HoloLens 2, Android Phones
Works with Unity, MRTK, C#, Azure .NET, Windows
Avid gardener
https://localjoost.github.io
One of those days... and it isn't even Monday
August 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
One of those days... and it isn't even Monday
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...
localjoost.github.io/A-Lens-Studi...
August 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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...
localjoost.github.io/A-Lens-Studi...
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:
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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:
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.
July 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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.
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 😁
July 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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 😁
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...
If you have one, give it a try! It is my first XR venture outside Unity
my-lenses.snapchat.com/28249103-810...
July 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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...
If you have one, give it a try! It is my first XR venture outside Unity
my-lenses.snapchat.com/28249103-810...
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
July 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
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.
June 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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.
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 💞
Love you still as I did that day 💞
May 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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 💞
Love you still as I did that day 💞
Better picture of my name on the #MvpSummit wall 😊
March 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Better picture of my name on the #MvpSummit wall 😊
March 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Never forget!
March 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Never forget!
Fully packed room for @fonssonnemans.bsky.social 's performance ninja session
March 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Fully packed room for @fonssonnemans.bsky.social 's performance ninja session
And @wildermuth.com takes the stage (showing an image of a Commodore 64)
March 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
And @wildermuth.com takes the stage (showing an image of a Commodore 64)
If you think you have seen it all 😁#FutureTech
March 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
If you think you have seen it all 😁#FutureTech
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
March 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
Developer life:
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Developer life:
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
February 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
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-...
localjoost.github.io/Lens-Studio-...
January 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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-...
localjoost.github.io/Lens-Studio-...
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-...
January 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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-...
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)
January 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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)
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.
January 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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.
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-...
localjoost.github.io/Lens-Studio-...
January 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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-...
localjoost.github.io/Lens-Studio-...
#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.
I had asked to remind me to upgrade the HOLOLENS.
January 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
#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.
I had asked to remind me to upgrade the HOLOLENS.
YES! With the latest update, I can now finally run Android apps from my non-Samsung phone in a window on #Windows11 ! #Windows #PhoneLink
January 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
YES! With the latest update, I can now finally run Android apps from my non-Samsung phone in a window on #Windows11 ! #Windows #PhoneLink