Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Project
Haptic Controllers & Rich Haptics for MR
We have been exploring a number of ways in which technology can generate a wide range of haptic sensations that may fit within held Virtual Reality controllers, not unlike the ones currently being used by…
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Hardware Lab
The Microsoft Research Hardware Lab provides electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, design, prototyping, fabrication, and related services to push forward the state of the art across all research domains.
Microsoft Research Blog
Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish…
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Exploiting Structure Information in Machine Learning
Machine learning has recently witnessed revolutionary success in a wide spectrum of domains. Most of these applications involve learning with complex inputs and/or outputs, which could be sequences and graphs in chemical and material design,…
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Enabling Low-power Computation, Sensing, and Communication on Internet-of-Things
In recent years, we have seen a massive number of IoT devices shipped to the market. The vision is that we are going to embrace a world where IoT devices are ubiquitously deployed. However, this…
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Text Entry in Immersive HMDisplay-based VR using Physical and Touch Keyboards
We study the performance and user experience of two popular mainstream text entry devices, desktop keyboards, and touchscreen keyboards, for use in Virtual Reality (VR) applications. We discuss the limitations arising from limited visual feedback…
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Effects of Hand Representations for Type in VR
In IEEE VR 2018 Alphanumeric text entry is a challenge for Virtual Reality (VR) applications. VR enables new capabilities, impossible in the real world, such as an unobstructed view of the keyboard, without occlusion by the…
