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Maria Gurova

Microsoft HoloLens: Real life holograms unveiled as part of Windows 10 - News - Gadgets... - 0 views

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  • Microsoft unveiled a new hologram platform today as part of its new operating system
  • The holographic software is built into Windows 10 already, the company said. Though Microsoft is working on its own hardware, the platform will also work for other virtual reality software like Oculus Rift and Google Glass
  • Microsoft executive built a virtual flying drone, which the company then showed could be 3D printed. Alex Kipman, who helped lead the project, called it “print preview for 3D printing”.
  • Maria Gurova on 22 Jan 15
     
    Microsoft tackles the field of VR headsets 
Maria Gurova

Minecraft firm Mojang bought by Microsoft for $2.5bn - Business News - Business - The I... - 0 views

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  • Maria Gurova on 16 Sep 14
     
    microsoft buying Minecraft with the hope to sell more of their devices to game fans
alexbelov

Microsoft is bringing bots to Skype - and everywhere else | TechCrunch - 0 views

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  • Microsoft’s own virtual assistant Cortana, aim to help pave the way for the future of communication, productivity, and interactions with businesses and brands.
  • In Skype, the company showed off rich Cortana integration which put the assistant directly into the app where she could help users do things like identify the persons, places and things in your messages, underline them, and then display more info in a card-like interface when clicked.
  • She is also able to help you perform a variety of tasks, like adding items to your calendar, booking travel or hotel rooms, or even pre-populating conversations to friends with text.
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  • The bots’ integration in Skype is rolling out today on Windows, iOS and Android as a preview.
  • The company launched the first-ever Skype Bot SDK, which lets brands, businesses and other third parties create their own bots that can work on Skype, seamlessly integrating into users’ chats. These aren’t just text bots, as many of the SMS-based virtual assistance startups we’ve seen so far – Skype bots can introduce both audio and video experiences
  • The company is also launching a bot directory, giving us a brief peek at a few bots it had created itself.
  • Bots “represent a huge opportunity to write new types of applications,” Nadella told developers
  • alexbelov on 05 Apr 16
     
    Microsoft jumps bots bandwagon by introducing bots ecosystem in skype, which includes bot development kit, bot framework and bot directory.
Ilya Vorobiev

Microsoft Hyperlapse: time lapse your videos - 1 views

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      Ilya Vorobiev on 29 Oct 15
       
      Every vacation or important event we produce a lot of videos and photos that are hardly consumable in the future. This is big a challenge for image and video recognition technologies. Hyperlapse is a great example in this field that helps to convert minutes or hours of videos into short simple and nice clip. Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcBLc4ifuQ
  • Microsoft Hyperlapse is a new technology that creates smooth and stabilized time lapses from first-person videos.
  • you can time lapse those experiences, distilling them into easily consumable, enjoyable experiences.
Ilya Vorobiev

Microsoft's 'RoomAlive' Turns Entire Room Into A Video Game - 5 views

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      Ilya Vorobiev on 29 Oct 15
       
      Despite technology advances such as Oculus and Kinect, the game is still separated from real world and augmented reality associated with bulky heads. This project addresses this problem by projecting objects on real world using depth cameras and projectors, turning your room into interactive video game. 3 minute video from Microsoft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILb5ExBzHqw Actual News review video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aZWUw8CzAo
  • RoomAlive is a proof-of-concept prototype that transforms any room into an immersive, augmented entertainment experience
  • Users can touch, shoot, stomp, dodge and steer projected content that seamlessly co-exists with their existing physical environment
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  • showcase four experience prototypes that demonstrate the novel interactive experiences that are possible with RoomAlive and discuss the design challenges of adapting any game to any room
Ilya Vorobiev

IllumiRoom: Immersive Experiences Beyond the TV Screen - 4 views

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      Ilya Vorobiev on 29 Oct 15
       
      PhD student that worked for Disney Imagineering and Microsoft Research made prototype of system that extends viewing experience of TV-set by surrounding it with augmented reality objects. It turns your room, physical environment into context of game or movie that you are viewing on TV.
  • IllumiRoom a proof-of-concept system that augments the area surrounding a television with projected visualizations to enhance traditional viewing experiences
  • directly extend the viewing experience, turning a 40 inch television into a 15 foot television
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  • can enable augmented reality experiences where virtual objects interact with the physical environment (e.g. furniture)
  • can augment and distort the physical environment (e.g making a living room look like a cartoon)
al_semenchenko

Чат-бот от Microsoft за сутки возненавидел человечество и стал нацистом: Инте... - 0 views

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  • Сразу после запуска чат-бот начинал общение с фразы «Люди очень клевые», но всего за сутки выучил такие фразы, как «Я замечательный! Я просто всех ненавижу!», «Я ненавижу феминисток» или «Я ненавижу евреев».
  • Tay запоминает фразы из пользовательских разговоров, а затем строит на их основе свои ответы. В этом, как отмечает Engadget, кроется причина такого радикального изменения во взглядах чат-бота. По всей видимости, подобным выражениям его научили собеседники.
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
Maria Gurova

Pixar Vets Reinvent Speech Recognition So It Works for Kids | WIRED - 0 views

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  • Though characters like Woody and Buzz Lightyear are wonderfully realistic and lovable, the relationship that kids have with them is largely one-sided. Kids can hear these characters talk—not only through movies, but games, toys, and other movie merchandise—but they can’t engage them.
  • It was this idea that inspired Jacob to team up with his former Pixar colleague, Martin Reddy, and launch a new company, ToyTalk. The San Francisco-based outfit develops mobile games that let kids have conversations with animated characters—dialogues that can last for hours
  • Known as PullString, it’s equal parts speech recognition engine and script writing tool, and it’s quite a departure from other speech rec tools developed by the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Apple. It’s tailored specifically to kids, whose sentence structure, pitch, and vocal tone have posed challenges for traditional tools.
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  • “The way kids talk and communicate is very different from how adults do, both in terms of how they use language and the fundamental frequencies that come out of their throats,
  • But as he points out, the way today’s children use technology will likely dictate the tech landscape for decades to come. If you can get kids hooked on speech technology young, they’ll stay with it forever.
  • Kids don’t want to ask a monkey character in a game what the weather will be on Tuesday. They want to sing him a song or ask him about life in the zoo.
  • While ToyTalk uses existing third party technology for its raw speech recognition, it works with those partners to develop better recognition models using ToyTalk’s own data. Now, ToyTalk has a trove of some 20 million children’s utterances, which Jacob believes is the largest database of kids conversation in the world
  • “Virtual assistants are awesome when they can answer every question. In our case, it’s the opposite,” Jacob says. “I have to know a lot of things that I’m not able to answer, and redirect the conversation to something that is within character.”
  • And Jacob says some toy companies are already testing PullString to power apps based on existing characters.
  • this technology could give kids a whole new way to play that falls somewhere in between the playground and the imaginary friend. “I think at some deep level if we succeed, we’ll inspire the imagination of kids to talk about things they might not otherwise talk about,”
  • Maria Gurova on 26 Sep 14
     
    the voice rec technology developed by ex-Pixar guy that is targeted to kids. It considers all nuances of kids speech behavior and analyses millions of kids conversations to make interaction with favorite characters within all possible media truly engaging
evgeny lavrov

The Battle for the Last Unconquered Screen-The One in Your Car - WSJ - 0 views

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  • The average American driver spends 51 minutes a day in the car
  • On future screens, local restaurants, doctors’ offices and other services could target ads based on typical driving routes
  • “We see this as the battle for the fourth screen,”
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  • Data privacy is a particular concern for German car makers
  • Beyond Apple and Google, other tech companies are working to get their offerings incorporated into car systems
  • Samsung Electronics Co
  • Microsoft Corp. is also edging
  • The launch of self-driving vehicles in the coming years could bring even more screens into the car, on and off the dashboard, as passengers get more time to work, shop or watch movies on the road.
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