In the news | Gamasutra
Want to meet people around the globe -- in your own room? New AR technology can allow for it, as Microsoft demonstrates in a video. The video embedded above shows cool new HoloLens tech from Microsoft Research, which can create…
In the news | Gizmodo
Holoportation is now a thing, so start slapping everyone in arm’s distance to make sure they’re real. This new technology by Microsoft Research uses 3D motion capture and Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality hardware to “holoport” people from one place to…
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While teleportation is still in the realm of science fiction, Microsoft has introduced "holoportation" - a 3D, real-time hologram of someone who is a world away, but still interacts with you. It's a newly revealed project coming out of Microsoft…
In the news | PCWorld
Microsoft wants to bring HoloLens users into a conversation with other folks who aren’t in the room, using a technology developed by its research division that enables “holoportation.” It’s a product of Microsoft Research’s Interactive 3D Technologies group, which released…
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Microsoft, owner of the popular video game, revealed that computer scientists and amateurs will be able to evaluate and develop AI software using its virtual landscapes from July. The company says Minecraft is more "sophisticated" than existing AI research simulations…
In the news | Silicon Republic
Loved by millions around the world as a game and as a creative way to learn how to code, Minecraft will become an advanced AI playground for developers this July.
By Jeannette M. Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research “Not in my lifetime.” That’s what I said when I was asked whether we would ever see computer science taught in K-12. It was 2009, and I was addressing a gathering…
In the news | Fast Company
Sleep apnea and smartphone interfaces don’t immediately sound related but as Shyam Gollakota, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, and his fellow researchers discovered, the technology used to track the former can mitigate some problems with the…
In the news | BBC News
An ambitious plan is underway to give a million schoolchildren a tiny device designed to inspire them to get coding.