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Beamatron: a Kinect-enabled AR concept from Microsoft Research combines the physical world with the virtual world
03/13/2012, The folks over at Microsoft Research have come up with a new augmented reality concept called the Beamatron. Combining a projector and a Kinect sensor on a pan tilt moving head, it allows people to combine the physical with the [...]
Microsoft Research shows us what it’s like to use faster touchscreens
03/09/2012, Touchscreens are pretty much a part of everybody’s lives nowadays, and Microsoft understands how increasingly important they have become. And despite having almost instantaneous response on iOS and Windows Phone devices, there still is a significant delay between our fingers [...]
Microsoft software translates your voice into another language
03/09/2012, In the future, not being able to communicate might be a thing of the past. The researchers at Microsoft have managed to develop software that can learn the sound of your voice, and then use it to speak in a [...]
Holodesk is self explanatory
10/19/2011, Wow, don’t you think we certainly have made plenty of progress when it comes to technology that deals with touchscreen displays, and now, holographic capabilities? Take for example the Holodesk that hails from the folks over at Microsoft Research (MSR). [...]
Microsoft attempt to take on Go
01/03/2011, Microsoft has recently released a video discussing the challenges behind the creation of “The Path of Go”, an Xbox 360 game based on the ancient Chinese game called Go. The Microsoft Research team took charge of developing the AI for [...]
Manual Deskterity Microsoft Research project
04/09/2010, The Manual Deskterity from Microsoft Research project brings pen as well as touch computing together in a single platform, making this partnership of sorts being a whole lot more powerful than they could ever be individually. Bear in mind that [...]