Project
Rich Interactive Narratives
The Microsoft Rich Interactive Narratives (RIN) research project combined traditional forms of storytelling with new visualization technologies to create compelling interactive digital narratives.
Graphics & multimedia
Advancing how digital images, video, and 3D experiences are created, processed, and experienced.
Video
Streetside
Streetside offers a true-to-life view of the street by seamlessly tranforming from close-up views to a multi-perspective panorama.
Microsoft Research Blog
Design Expo Focus: Student Innovation
By Janie Chang, Writer, Microsoft Research Since 2003, Microsoft Research’s Faculty Summit Design Expo program has promoted interdisciplinary collaboration between the design and computer-science academic communities, while fostering closer ties between Microsoft and design schools.…
Microsoft Research Blog
Terapixel Project: Lots of Data, Expertise
By Rob Knies, Managing Editor, Microsoft Research How can you achieve the impossible? Easy—as long as you have the right people and the right tools. The Terapixel project from Microsoft Research Redmond is proof positive.…
Video
Precomputed Wave Simulation for Real-Time Sound Propagation of Dynamic Sources in Complex Scenes
We present a method for real-time sound propagation that captures all wave effects, including diffraction and reverberation, for multiple moving sources and a moving listener in a complex, static 3D scene. It performs an offline…
Video
Bringing Mars to the Masses
Microsoft Research and NASA worked together for more than a year to bring a new viewing experience to Mars imagery through the WorldWide Telescope. Interactive images and an exciting new NASA data set enable viewers…
Publication