On November 18, 2024, Microsoft unveiled an impressive feat of digital innovation: the creation of the world’s first 3D digital twin of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. This groundbreaking project utilizes cutting-edge technologies such as photogrammetry and artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Here’s a couple of tips for how you can get started quickly in...
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Microsoft has a proven track record of transforming productivity: empowering people and organizations to achieve more. As part of the digital transformation that the modern workplace is currently undergoing, mixed reality is providing new ways for companies to visualize and interact with 3D...
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Whether you’re an artist, student or mobile professional, Surface Dial optimizes your digital workflow by bringing your most-used shortcuts and tools to your screen with simple presses and turns of the Dial. You can also use Dial to do things like play music or skip tracks in...
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When does the history of mixed reality start? There are lots of suggestions, but 1977 always shows up as a significant year. That’s the year millions of children – many of whom would one day become the captains of Silicon Valley – first experienced something they wouldn’t be able...
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Augmented Reality is a way to connect virtual objects with the real world, making it possible to naturally interact with them by use of mobile devices like phones, tablets or new mixed reality devices like HoloLens.
Vuforia is one of the most popular Augmented Reality platforms for developers...
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Last week I was a little taken to task for not covering the many Kinect assets in the Unity Asset Store. Sure I've blogged about a few, but I'd never actually searched the Store for Kinect assets. I know, "Bad Greg..."
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I have to thank Rumen Filkov (aka RF Solutions) for pointing...
Today is a play and learn day. Last month at Build 2015, Microsoft Edge was introduced using a new web app/game that reimagined the age old Flight Simulator in a web world.
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What's great is that not only can you play the game, but you can learn how it...
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Today's project is another one of those, if you need this, you really need it....
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For those interested, I have developed a library of Labview VI's to access data from the Kinect V2. It seemed that such a library was not available even though one was developed for the Kinect V1...
I just bought a roccat kone pure high dpi mouse for 3d modeling and photoshop. It worked perfectly for a couple weeks, and now it is malfunctioning. I cannot orbit or pan with the mouse wheel. I cannot drag and relocate files on the desktop. I can select a file and move it, but as soon as i lift...
While we're still going with our "OMG, is it still summer... School is starting when?" theme, today's post isn't really for the kids. It's to help you build awesome and cool stuff FOR kids.
It's also a chance to share a free Visual Studio extension that will help you build stuff using one of...
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Today's kind of, sort of inspirational project is from a Hack-a-Day post by Brian Benchoff. It's kind of inspirational in that since the project's authors can't release the source, they can at least release their background research...
Virtual Physical Reality With Kintinuous And An Oculus Rift...
Some interesting statistics regarding PC (desktop / laptop) sales over the past year from multiple top tier OEMs showing a somewhat flat or even a mild decline in most instances (excepting ASUS).
Not sure what the take away should be from the article, as there seems to be the usual speculation...
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Have you ever heard of the OS-Tans? If you want to know everything  you can read the KNM article here: OS-tan | Know Your Meme (more detailed than the Wiki article)
In short, they are a moe anthropomorphism interpretation (hope I wrote that right) of the different operating systems...
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Flash on an iPad ? No problem, and neither is QuickTime on a Samsung Galaxy Tab -- assuming you're running both from a virtualized Windows 7 PC using OnLive's new app. OnLive may have originally pitched itself as a streaming games service, but founder Steve Perlman revised his ambitions at the...