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In the news | Engadget
3D audio is the secret to HoloLens’ convincing holograms
For HoloLens, a mixed reality headset that places holograms in your immediate environment, Dr. Ivan Tashev’s team worked on a sound system that creates the illusion of 3D audio to bring virtual objects to life.
In the news | Microsoft Blog
The Oregon Project
An interactive experience of artwork augmented with sound that allows one to ‘hear’ a large format drawing. Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon, who is legally blind, debuted an installation with innovative research from Microsoft that enriches his art even more,…
In the news | Hamptons Art Hub
Oregon Project Lets Visitors Hear a Painting
The team behind the Oregon Project have created an art installation that allows people who are visually impaired (and those who aren’t) to ‘hear’ a painting.
In the news | The Wall Street Journal
Is DNA the Future of Data Storage?
How a synthetic version of our genetic code could become the world’s most efficient hard drive.
In the news | Engadget
Microsoft Research helped ‘Gears of War 4’ sound so good
Sound propagation in games is usually modeled with tricks and manual markup work. Gears of War 4 uses Project Triton to perform physical analysis of an entire video game level with its materials to calculate its occlusion and reverb properties.…
Awards | Popular Science
Microsoft and Univ. of Washington DNA Storage earns 2016 Popular Science Best of What’s New Award
A collaboration between researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington to develop a system that uses synthetic DNA as a medium for archiving digital information received a 2016 Popular Science Best of What’s New Award (opens in new tab)…
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Introducing Russian Speech Translation for Microsoft Translator
Microsoft Translator announces the availability of the Russian language as its ninth speech translation language in addition to the existing ones: Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish.
Awards | ACM SIGMOBILE
Victor Bahl & Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award
Victor Bahl and Venkat Padmanabhan awarded ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Paper Award (opens in new tab) for RADAR: An in-building RF-based user location and tracking system. RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology.…
A breakthrough in sound engineering models how sound moves through any environment in Gears of War 4.