Hololens- Failed to Connect to Device

Question

I realize this question was asked elsewhere, but the answers seem to direct towards the paring process between Hololens and a PC, which is part of my problem.

I made

Answer 1

Building for Hololens requires UWP. To build UWP app for Unity these requirements must be met:

• Unity 5.2 or later
• A Windows 10 machine
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM, (the minimum version is 14.0.23107.0). Please note that earlier versions, for example Visual Studio RC, are not supported in Unity 5.2.
• You’ll also need to install the Windows 10 SDK.

Like you mentioned, you are using Windows 8 but Windows 10 is required. You can read more bout this on Unity blog.