Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Project
Holographic Near-Eye Displays for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Summary In this project, we explore how digital holography can be used to build novel near-eye displays for virtual and mixed (or augmented) reality. We experiment with true, phase-only holograms in which the image is formed by the interference…
Microsoft Research Blog
Where cryptography and quantum computing intersect
By Kristin Lauter, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Last week I spent time at the American Institute of Mathematics in San Jose, working with a group of 20 or so mathematicians and computer scientists on questions…
Video
Seeing Experience from Many Angles: Educational Game Design as a Data-Informed Craft
Increasingly, educational games have become an established part of the instructional landscape, however designing a compelling and effective instructional game remains a challenge. One of the reasons for this challenge is that game players are…
Video
Quantum query complexity of entropy estimation
Estimation of Shannon and Renyi entropies of unknown discrete distributions is a fundamental problem in classical statistical property testing that has been intensively studied by the communities of both theoretical computer science and information theory.…
