Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that would let users pick from 40 animated, non‑photorealistic 3D avatars — powered by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 — and speak to them in voice mode, according to an internal description surfaced by testers; the rollout...
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Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move...
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Last week I introduced you to the Unity Kinect of Rumen Filkov (aka RF Solutions), Unity Asset - Kinect [v1] with MS-SDK. As I said, here's another of his Unity Assets, today focusing on the Kinect v2.
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The newest PC security system featuring the WizArmor™Avatar by Wiz Enterprises of Virginia is now available for the Microsoft Windows 7 OS and features the most advanced algorithms to generate a clone of your PC to detect and destroy intruders. Coltons Point, MD (PRWEB) December 22, 2010 "The...
The newest PC security system featuring the WizArmor™Avatar by Wiz Enterprises of Virginia is now available for the Microsoft Windows 7 OS and features the most advanced algorithms to generate a clone of your PC to detect and destroy intruders. Coltons Point, MD (PRWEB) December 22, 2010 "The...
The newest PC security system featuring the WizArmor™Avatar by Wiz Enterprises of Virginia is now available for the Microsoft Windows 7 OS and features the most advanced algorithms to generate a clone of your PC to detect and destroy intruders.
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The newest PC security system featuring the WizArmor™Avatar by Wiz Enterprises of Virginia is now available for the Microsoft Windows 7 OS and features the most advanced algorithms to generate a clone of your PC to detect and destroy intruders. (PRWeb December 22, 2010) Read the full story at...
Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at:
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With the holiday buying season descending upon us, fancy new commercials are naturally ramping up in tandem. Microsoft has a new spin on its Windows 7 promotional efforts with its latest ad, which shows a Mac and a PC bonding over a Blu-ray copy of Avatar during a long flight. Naturally, the PC...