augmented reality

Hey everyone — I hope this month’s blog post finds you well! Today, we are welcoming the solstice in the U.S., and I am very much looking forward to summer in Seattle. In addition to some planned vacation time, I will also be working with our team and partners on some exciting product...

Link Removed Last year around this time I had the chance to write a post about one of my favorite mixed reality uses cases – healthcare. Since that time, we have continued to see remarkable momentum for mixed reality across numerous facets of the industry. This week at Link Removed our team...

Behind every bracelet and tote created by the young artists of SEQUENCE is a compelling story of creativity and lasting community change. At retail stores, this story and its meaning might not be conveyed to customers, so SEQUENCE’s founder, Ariela Suster, partnered with Microsoft Edge to create...

Mixed reality will unleash the creativity of every person and every organization on the planet. Our journey has been filled with key moments in time that have shown us what is possible as we enter this next era of computing, the era of mixed reality. From the introduction of Microsoft HoloLens...

Link Removed Dr. Olivier Elemento (left) alongside with his Ph.D students Neil Madhukar and Katie Gayvert, analyze medical network data (photo courtesy of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine) Welcome! This is Making mixed reality, a series celebrating the passionate community...

Link Removed I first met Lucas Rizzotto at a Link Removed hackathon last December, where he and his team built a holographic advertising solution. Fast forward to August, and he’s now an award-winning mixed reality creator, technologist, and designer with two HoloLens apps in Windows Store...

Anyone following the excitement around virtual reality and augmented reality over the past year is aware of the anticipation surrounding Microsoft’s new Windows Mixed Reality headsets. You understand that a rapidly expanding mixed reality market is just waiting for developers like you to get...

Link Removed 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...

The platform game genre has undergone constant evolution, from its earliest incarnations in Donkey Kong and Pitfall to recent variations like Flappy Bird. Shigeru Miyamoto’s Super Mario Bros. is recognized as the best platform game of all time, setting a high bar for everyone who came after. The...

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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Hi Everyone. This is pretty neat, Star Wars doesn't look so far away after you see this. It gives you a feel for what the world is really going to look like in only a few years. Microsoft is looking for insiders to test this now, and it is available for developers, who can spend the $3,000 on...

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 Link Removed (3D Printed Clothing)... Link Removed Ping Live (kind of ;)...

This week on Channel 9, Nikola and guest host Dave Crawford discuss the week's top developer news, including; Link Removed Hey Dave!, Link Removed Link Removed E3 Day One Recap, Day Two, Day Three [Major Nelson] Link Removed New Xbox One 1TB Console Unveiled [Larry Hryb] Link Removed Link...

Friend of the Gallery and Kinect MVP Vangos Pterneas is back with a great and detailed post on developing with the HD Face API. Some of the other times we've highlighted Vangos Pterneas's work; Just face it... with these two Kinect for Windows v2 SDK Face Examples Kinetisense and Kinect app...

IllumiRoom (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/illumiroom/) demonstrated how projection mapping can enhance entertainment. RoomAlive (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/roomalive/) prototyped turning any room into an interactive, augmented experience. In this session, Andy...

We've mentioned IllumiRoom and RoomAlive before, but at Build 2015 there was a dedicated session AND the release of the RoomAlive Toolkit too! Link Removed IllumiRoom (Link Removed) demonstrated how projection mapping can enhance entertainment. RoomAlive (Link Removed) prototyped turning any...

Mike Taulty, long time Friend of the Kinect Gallery, has been writing up a great series of articles around Intel's RealSense camera and Visual Studio (of course ;). Here's the current series ToC (as of the time of writing this), where you can get a good feel of everything he's covering... Link...

SHANGHAI, April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With more than 1,000,000 sets sold during the 2015 Chinese New Year holidays, the launch of the NEOBEAR Pocket Zoo was an overwhelming success. The NEOBEAR Pocket Zoo uses AR (Augmented Reality) technology, which is still just a concept in Microsoft's...

How much will Microsoft Hololens cost? What is Surface Hub? When will Windows 10 be released? All the key questions answered Link Removed