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When it comes to sound, Gears of War 4 is the first game that doesn’t fake it
Gears of War 4 will be the first game in the world to use Triton, a sound technology that accurately maps sound in 3D spaces.
Awards | University College London
Dean’s Prize from University College London, 2016
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicine/news/2016/apr/deans-research-prize-2016
In the news | MIT Technology Review
Cryptography Could Add Privacy Protections to NSA Phone Surveillance
Cryptography could enforce limits on data collected for surveillance data while still permitting agencies to do their jobs, argues a Microsoft researcher.
In the news | Microsoft News
The Invisible Revolution
Chandra’s first revelation was that farmers could use television white spaces — TV frequencies that aren’t being used in rural areas and can be accessed for wireless Internet connectivity.
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft’s Spooky New Bot Can Automatically Caption Your Photos – Sometimes
Microsoft’s CaptionBot uses computer vision and natural language processing to describe any photo, just as a human would.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft demos next-generation image-captioning Captionbot
Microsoft created Captionbot.ai, which is a tremendously addictive (and science-fiction-grade awesome).
In the news | Microsoft Translator Blog
Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation to everyone with the worldâs first Speech Translation API
A new Microsoft Translator API adds real-time speech-to-speech (and speech to text) translation capabilities to the existing text translation API. Powered by Microsoft’s state-of-the-art AI technologies, this capability has been available to millions of users of Skype for over a…
In the news | PC Magazine
Microsoft Demos Star Wars-Style ‘Holoportation’
The company is developing technology that can transmit 3D models of people anywhere in the world. Online video chatting is so last year: Microsoft now wants to connect far-flung family and friends through holograms. The company is developing technology that…
In the news | DigitalTrends
Microsoft ‘holoportation’ lets you share a room with a faraway friend
Whether you need to inform Obi-Wan he’s your only hope, or just want to hang out with loved ones who are far, far away, who hasn’t dreamed of a future involving holograms? Microsoft’s “holoportation” demo shows that it’s possible —…