Hardware Requirements

To develop for Hololens, your PC should meet the following specifications:
  • 64-bit Windows 10 (The Home edition does not support Hyper-V)
  • 64-bit CPU
  • 8 GB of RAM or more
  • In the BIOS, the following features must be supported and enabled/
  • Hardware-assisted virtualization
  • Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)
  • Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
  • GPU (The emulator might work with an unsupported GPU, but will be significantly slower).
  • DirectX 11.0 or later
  • WDDM 1.2 driver or later
Hololens SDK Installation

The Hololens Emulator runs as a virtual machine. So, your PC must support virtualization.