CHI 2013: Microsoft turns a room into a video game with Kinect-based IllumiRoom project
The IllumiRoom project from Microsoft Research turns a living room into a video game with projected images that extend and complement the main television screen.
Microsoft Research articles
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Inside Microsoft Research: holodecks, a juggling robot and the future of Kinect
Check out the innovative, madcap toys created using Microsoft's whopping £6million research budget.
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So what's Microsoft's So.cl social network all about then?
Microsoft's social networking experiment, So.cl, is a site designed around sharing Web content pulled from Bing searches.
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IllumiShare lets artists draw together on paper from anywhere in the world
Microsoft Research project uses a camera and projector to let two creatives collaborate on the same drawing.
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British Library shows 3D tech for the future of research
Over the next nine months, the British Library will be using a dedicated exhibition to explore what technological tools will shape the library’s future research facilities.
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Microsoft releases Silverlight beta
This week Microsoft is quietly delivering a flurry of updates to its developer community, including the release candidate version of Silverlight, the new rich media competitor to Adobe's Flash Player. Also available for download will be a Silverlight plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 -- another huge hunk of bits Microsoft is making available for download this week. None of this would be complete without Beta 2 of the 3.5 version of the .Net Framework itself, also ready for downloading.
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Microsoft shows off high-def photo tech
Microsoft is working on a variety of innovative photo projects, ranging from experiments with its 3D maps offering to massive panoramic photos that users can zoom into for details.