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A new era of spatial computing brings fresh challenges—and solutions—to VR
Virtual reality (VR) has continually pushed the boundaries of how we perceive, from its early days of Ivan Sutherland’s Sword of Damocles to today. With the technology emerging from its early stages of bulky equipment tethered to one place out of necessity, researchers now are working with increased possibilities derived from hardware and new input sensors. The result is a unique set…
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Cornell Professor Creates AI-Interfaced Photoluminescent Fiber Installation to Facilitate Dialogue Through Technology
In Building 99 on Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus, Prof. Jenny Sabin, architecture, unveiled her latest project: an AI interface called Ada that translates people’s facial reactions into color by using a network of a dozen cameras designed to collect people’s…
The inner magic behind the Z3 theorem prover
| Nikolaj Bjørner and Leonardo de Moura
It’s not uncommon for us to hear that the Z3 theorem prover is magical, but the frequency of such complimentary feedback doesn’t make it any less unexpected—or humbling. When we began work on Z3 in 2006, the design was motivated…
Awards | CapstanCrunch: A Haptic VR Controller with User-supplied Force Feedback.
Best Paper: Honorable Mention, UIST 2019
User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2019 (opens in new tab)| October 2019 Mike Sinclair, Eyal Ofek, Mar Gonzalez Franco & Christian Holz Organized by ACM
In the news | SciTechDaily
Sabin Installation Turns AI Into Art at Microsoft Research Atrium
For Project Ada, Sabin and her team at Jenny Sabin Studio collaborated with a group of engineers, data scientists, and designers at Microsoft Research to create a responsive, immersive space that uses AI to process facial patterns and the emotions…
In the news | SciTechDaily
Sabin Installation Turns AI Into Art at Microsoft Research Atrium
For more than a decade, architect and educator Jenny Sabin has created a series of large sculptural installations at the intersection of architecture, art, and science. Integrating new technologies, inventive material and a combination of biological phenomena… For more than…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft open sources SandDance data visualization too
SandDance is a data visualization tool which Microsoft Research first announced in 2016. SandDance was able to handle multi-dimensional datasets of hundreds of thousands of rows and 30 columns. It showed a large number of related views by changing how…
In the news | Microsoft The AI Blog
Smiles beam and walls blush: Architecture meets AI at Microsoft
Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she’s struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy atrium of…
In the news | Microsoft The AI Blog
Smiles beam and walls blush: Architecture meets AI at Microsoft
Jenny Sabin is perched high on a scissor lift, her head poking through an opening of the porous fabric structure that she’s struggling to stretch onto the exoskeleton of her installation piece, which is suspended in the airy atrium of…