animation

It's been a while since we've highlighted one of the cooler learning to program tools, so when I saw Rachel McCollin's recent post, Introduction to Scratch, I knew I had today's project. You've all heard of Scratch? Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own...

My iMac has three folders in its dock (Applications, Documents, and Downloads) that uses animation effectively to present a "tree" structure that encourages organization, making it easy to drill down to a specific feature in my system -- and I need organization like that. I would like to do...

In our second Link Removed theme week post, Link Removed and Link RemovedLink Removed spend 6+ hours teaching you have to create 3D Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform games with Unit 5... Link Removed Are you looking to build 3D games with Unity 5 for the Windows 10 Universal Windows...

Welcome back to Ping! We talk about the return of robot combat return to television, we chat about a one-way ticket to Mars on the space desk, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about... Link Removed Last Show... Link Removed Windows 95 is 20 years old today Link Removed...

If you haven't taken the plunge yet and wonder what Windows 10 looks like then you can access the browser based Demo. This takes you through a series of slides and animations depicting what this latest version has to offer. Link Removed

Scott talks to Karan Batta about how to use Azure Batch for large scale Rendering Workflows. Karan uses a plugin for Autodesk Maya 2015 that lets you utilize the raw power and scale of Azure to speed up your scene renders using Azure Batch. Link Removed Link Removed

For the last couple weeks I've been highlighted the Kinect Unity Assets of Rumen Filkov (aka RF Solutions), Unity Asset - Kinect [v1] with MS-SDK and Unity Asset - Kinect v2 with MS-SDK. Today I'm wrapping up the series by sharing a great blog post from Rumen on using his “Kinect v2 with...

Fast accelerated graphics! with an clean easy API! That's the promise of Microsoft's Win2d library. In this video I walk through, from scratch, how to create a simple animated graphics application for UWP using .NET. There are full notes (and links to source code) on my blog: Link Removed...

Hello. i need some help here, i restored my computer to fabric settings, and keep the photos, but when i boot it up, everything is fine, but when clicking on the off button, there´s no suspend option, just Turn OFF and reboot. Also, my computer got laggy on the animations, its slow, like if it...

Link Removed, Friend of the Gallery, posted another great example of using the Kinect v2, this time using it and its capabilities to start an Avatar journey... Here's some of the other posts from Peter we've highlighted recently; Kinect 2, Sound Detection with C++ More on the openFrameworks...

Link Removed The Channel 9 Guy made an appearance in the Build keynote this year and if you have a 3D printer you might want to know where you can get the model. Eden Soto was kind enough to provide us with a 3D model of the 9 Guy. Eden makes all the CGI intro videos that we use for shows on...

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This guest blog post is the final post of a 3-part series written by Windows developer Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original 3rd post on Jani’s blog Link Removed, and refer to Part 1 Link Removed and Part 2 here. Moving the ship When we’re doing a universal app, we have to take in account...

I've mentioned that with the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK you can now create Windows Store apps, Kinect to Windows Store App development. Recently the Kinect Team highlighted three real world examples of this... Link Removed In case you hadn't noticed, the Windows Store added something really...

While I don't usually highlight commercial products, this product and others from Brekel deserve an exception... Brekel Pro Face 2 For Kinect for Windows v2 & Kinect for Xbox One sensors Brekel Pro Face v2 is a Windows application that enables 3D animators to record and stream 3D face...

This guest blog post is the first of a 3-part series written by Windows MVP Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original post Link Removed, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 coming soon. I believe that games are still one of the most fun ways to get to know a new programming language. Since there...

I had to search the blog here a couple times before posting this. I just couldn't believe I've not highlighted this previously! Link Removed I've seen several topics about Kinect controlled Avatars in Unity, so I'll bring to your attention our RUIS toolkit which is intended for creating...

Hello. Previously I've had a computer that would randomly crash, as if I forced it to shut down. Unfortunately, that pc is dead. a capacitor blew in the power source. But my problem now is I have migrated to my dad's pc. None of the problems with my old pc occured until I started using it. So I...

Just saw the news that one of our favorite libs, Babylon.js has reached a new major milestone, v2.0! Link Removed ... Major updates Support for WebAudio. More info Link Removed (davrous) Support for Procedural Texture with standard usable samples and custom support. More info Link Removed...

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