Visual Studio Doesn't Show Hololens Emulator

Question

I'm trying to deploy my project to Hololens Emulator using Visual Studio 2017. My Solution Explorer looks like this:

My Solution Explorer looks like this

When I try to deploy to my Emulator it shows this

To ensure that the Emulators are working I created a new Blank App (Universal Windows) in Visual Studio, that showed this Solution Explorer and Deploy options:

The Emulator opened the Blank App as it's supposed to.

My Build Settings in Unity are the following.

I've tried to reinstall everything, and even creating new Projects in Unity following Microsoft's official tutorial (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/learn-mrtk-tutorials/1-3-exercise-configure-unity-for-windows-mixed-reality?tabs=openxr).

My current Unity version is the 2021.3.21f1 LTS.

Best regards!

Answer 1

Unity 2021.3.21f1 LTS is not the recommended version. As Choosing a Unity version and XR plugin said,

For new projects, we recommend using Unity 2020.3.31f1 with the latest Mixed Reality OpenXR plugin to avoid this issue.

Besides, as per Install the tools, Visual Studio 2019 (16.8 or higher) is needed for Hololens 2 development.