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Microsoft Rocketbox avatar library now available for research and academic use
| Mar Gonzalez Franco and Eyal Ofek
Virtual reality technology has become popular in recent years thanks to the availability of more affordable systems. Today, we can put on a head-mounted display and find ourselves in a completely different world, a virtual one in which the more…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft Research shows off their novel VR cane controller again
Microsoft Research has released another video of their previously demonstrated haptics-enabled cane which allows blind people to navigate VR.
In the news | ZDNet
Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service helps power CDC’s COVID-19 assessment bot
Microsoft is continuing to step up its internal and external efforts to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus. Last week, Microsoft announced that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using Microsoft’s Healthcare chat bot service to power its…
In the news | Official Microsoft Blog
Delivering information and eliminating bottlenecks with CDC’s COVID-19 assessment bot
In a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not only important to deliver medical care but to also provide information to help people make decisions and prevent health systems from being overwhelmed. Microsoft is helping with this challenge by offering…
In the news | Microsoft Healthcare and Life Sciences Blog
Health Bot – Instance Management and Version Control Best Practices
The Microsoft Health Bot Service is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that is a perfect compliment to any Patient Engagement Strategy. The Healthcare Bot supports common healthcare scenarios such as Review of Symptom Triage, Appointment Scheduling using FHIR…
In the news | Microsoft Research
Project Acoustics: Making Waves with Triton
Project Acoustics is now available for all game developers and sound designers to use. It employs the Triton technology developed in Microsoft Research for accurate sound propagation using wave physics.
Auto ML and the future of self-managing networks with Dr. Behnaz Arzani
Dr. Behnaz Arzani is a senior researcher in the Mobility and Networking group at MSR, and she feels your pain. At least, that is, if you’re a network operator trying to troubleshoot an incident in a datacenter. Her research is…
Awards | Measuring System Visual Latency through Cognitive Latency on Video See-Through AR devices
IEEE VR 2020 Honorable Mention paper (Top 5 papers)
R. Gruen (MSR), E. Ofek (MSR), A. Steed (UCL), R. Gal (MSR), M. Sinclair (MSR) and M. Gonzalez Franco (MSR) Measuring System Visual Latency through Cognitive Latency on Video See-Through AR devices. IEEE VR Mar 2020
Engineering research to life with Gavin Jancke
If you want an inside look at how a research idea goes from project to prototype to product, you should hang out with Gavin Jancke for a while. He’s the General Manager of Engineering for MSR Redmond where he created…