October 9, 2023
Summer wallpapers
After a seven-year entrepreneurial journey that ended with a tinge of disappointment, I needed to rest, recharge, and reflect. More than ever, I had to enjoy this summer before contemplating my next venture. This...
Writing
Find my posts about spatial computing and entrepreneurship - and older posts about VLC Media Player and UWP development.
May 21, 2023
Real-time remote content editing with Google's AR Cloud
Recently at Opuscope we had the privilege to explore the new Google Maps Photorealistic 3D tiles API. We started experimenting with the ability to anchor digital content on top of the physical world in...
May 21, 2021
Minsar Studio 2.6
Spread the news! đ We are thrilled about how things are going since we released the app on Oculus Quest. There's been a huge increase in created AR/VR content in the last weeks and...
March 31, 2021
Minsar Studio 2.5
v2.5.0 â March 31, 2021 Spread the news! đ We are thrilled about how things are going since we released the app on Oculus Quest. There's been a huge increase in created AR/VR content...
April 20, 2017
Facebook Spaces is truly the Skype of the future
I quit my hometown 4 years ago, when I was 17, to study CS in Paris. Since then, I've been calling my mum every day even for just a minute, chatting with her on...
January 26, 2017
Basic GitLab integration in Microsoft Teams
At Opuscope we currently use Microsoft Teams, even though there's a lot of room for improvement. We really enjoyed the GitLab integration in Slack through webhooks. As you know, there's no GitLab integration in Teams...
August 7, 2016
The Holographic resurgence of a mobile Windows
Disclaimer: Everything in this post is based on rumors or public information. I obviously would not disclose any confidential information. Therefore please do not consider anything hereinafter to be verified info. To the contrary...
April 19, 2016
Announcing VLC for UWP
Hi everyone, We've been quite silent on our work toward building the VLC app for Windows 10. We didn't want to set any deadline until we were 100% confident, so we wouldn't overpromise and...
October 3, 2015
VLC for Windows Phone 1.6
Hi everyone, The last VLC for WP update was 1.3.3.7 ( ;) ) and was released months ago. Today, VLC v1.6.0 for Windows Phone (should work with Windows 10 Mobile but phones get hot...
October 3, 2015
VLC for Windows Store 1.8
AKA probably one of the last releases before we start working 100% on the Windows 10 version. This new version brings several new features, for you, for the developers, and for us, so it's...
August 10, 2015
Useful Edge tip - Sync your favorites with OneDrive
Because of this ... It's the end of the world as we know it. pic.twitter.com/qXRLLl8Mpu — Tina Debove Nigro ᯠ(@tina__nigro) August 10, 2015 (I know, quoting your own tweets is bad) I had...
August 7, 2015
VLC 1.5 - On the Road to Windows 10
It's been a long time since we updated the VLC app on the Windows Store. Last update was released on May, 19th, and April 23rd on Windows Phone. Today, we're releasing an update on...
August 6, 2015
How to compute the TitleBar height on Windows 10
You may need to customize your ApplicationViewTitleBar in your Universal Windows Platform app. On "normal" screens the TitleBar height is set to 32px, however this may not work on High-DPI screens like the Surface...
July 18, 2015
Multiple Windows in a WinRT app (8.1 and 10)
With Windows 8.1 appeared multitasking APIs allowing developers to use the Snap capabilities of Windows 8.0, expanded with Windows 8.1. Since then, apps like Mail can open an embedded link by opening a second...
July 12, 2015
Windows 10 APIs in a W8.1 app - Fullscreen mode
A month ago, Microsoft announced a new Windows 10 SDK which provides hundreds of new APIs. I'll publish several blog posts on some of them I'm already using in my W10 apps, however, some...
July 12, 2015
Centered alignment of GridView items
I realized this isn't the easiest and most intuitive thing to do with XAML and WinRT, so here it is. The goal is to display items in the Center of a GridView. By design...
April 29, 2015
An intro to VS Code
As a MacBook Pro owner, I've been waiting for Visual Studio to land on OS X for a very, very long time. A year ago, this was a mere wish. Today, the New Microsoft...
April 23, 2015
VLC 1.3 - Changelog
Hi everyone, Here's the changelog of VLC 1.3: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-ports/winrt.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD
February 27, 2015
Announcing VLC as a true Universal App
Technical pre-requisites The concept of Universal App has been introduced by Microsoft during Build 2014. It offers developers a way to use the same C# code in both Windows and Windows Phone platforms. This...
February 11, 2015
Exploring Windows 10 APIs - Windows and TitleBar
Windows 10 Technical Preview 2 is finally available, and Microsoft is working hard on bringing new APIs on WinRT, as well as a new, updated modern visual style, the so called MDL (Metro Design...
October 31, 2014
Disabling the Action Center gesture
Pour celles et ceux qui comme moi, ont besoin de désactiver par moment la gesture faisant apparaßtre l'Action Center (de haut en bas du téléphone en portrait et de gauche à droite en paysage)...
October 30, 2014
ListView/GridView - Detect a vertical scroll gesture
Les Ă©crans de nos smartphones n'arrĂȘtent pas de grandir, cela dit, il faut tout de mĂȘme utiliser le peu d'espace disponible avec prĂ©caution. Dans une de mes applications, j'ai une page contenant une Grid...
August 3, 2014
MSP Summit and Imagine Cup 2014
Préambule Je profite de ces 24 heures de transit vers la France pour rédiger un petit blogpost autour de cette superbe semaine passée à Seattle, en essayant de ne pas trop parler du cÎté...
July 31, 2014
A quick update about VLC for the Windows (Phone) Store
I have been relatively quiet these past few weeks because I have been working hard to revamp the VLC Windows Store version, which is now a universal app. I took my time to ask...
July 2, 2014
Two years as a C# dev and Microsoft Student Partner
A few days ago, Microsoft France published the results of the MSP selections for the year 2014-2015. The number of MSPs has decreased from over 200 to less than fifty. While the community was...
September 26, 2013
A minimized AppBar for Windows 8 similar to Windows 8.1's Mail and Calendar apps
(This is for my first post wrote in English, I'm already sorry for all the mistakes you would find in it) I'm currently developing a new app, HFR RT, in which I wanted to...
April 28, 2013
Afficher les aperçus photos d'un dossier avec WinRT
Dans cet article, je vais essayer de vous faire gagner du temps. Si vous ĂȘtes fatiguĂ© et que vous foncez tĂȘte baissĂ©e sans ĂȘtre concentrĂ© sur votre code, vous risquez de faire la mĂȘme...
April 5, 2013
Convert a string to MD5 on Windows Phone
Pour améliorer la sécurité de vos apps, il est parfois nécessaire de chiffrer des données sensibles de l'utilisateur. Ainsi, vous pouvez encoder un mot de passe, un pseudo ou n'importe quelle chaßne de caractÚres...
April 3, 2013
Use the HP Touchpad to debug Android apps on Windows 9
Dans ce post, je vais quelque peu m'Ă©carter du sujet originel de mon site, cependant je suis sĂ»r que ce post aura un intĂ©rĂȘt pour certains internautes dĂ©sespĂ©rĂ©s comme je l'Ă©tais cette aprĂšs-midi. Je...
February 11, 2013
My experience with the Microsoft Accelerator
Comme prĂ©vu, jâenchaĂźne avec mon premier article, destinĂ© Ă vous faire connaĂźtre un peu plus le principe de lâAccĂ©lĂ©rateur Windows. Bien que son principe ait Ă©tĂ© lĂ©gĂšrement revu et corrigĂ© au dĂ©but de cette...