Muse is Xbox’s generative AI model for gameplay ideation
Microsoft Research unveiled Muse, the company’s first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation. Fatima Kardar, corporate vice president of gaming AI at Microsoft,...
Microsoft’s PIVOT haptics research might improve how we throw balls in VR
Even if you were separated from family and friends by time or distance, what would it mean if virtual reality could believably offer you...
Researchers combine reinforcement learning and NLP to escape a Grue monster
AI researchers from Georgia Tech and Microsoft Research created AI that combines reinforcement learning and natural language processing (NLP) to outperform state-of-the-art question-answering AI...
Microsoft shows off prototype VR controller with force-feedback for grasping
Microsoft Research showed off a prototype VR controller which provides force-feedback for grasping small objects with the thumb and index finger. The researchers claim...
SeeingVR: What Microsoft is doing for the visually impaired
Microsoft Reseach, in partnership with Cornell University, developed a range of techniques to make virtual reality accessible to the visually impaired. VR is a heavily visual...
Microsoft Research shows off Handpose, an amazing real-time hand-tracking system
Thanks to the Kinect, Microsoft is well known for its expertise in developing motion-sensing systems. While the technology has improved over the years, tracking human hands still has a long way to go. Enter Microsoft Research’s Handpose.
The DeanBeat: At Siggraph, dipping into gaming's frontiers — like a bathtub liquid display
The visual delights of Siggraph's Emerging Technologies exhibit may someday reach gamers.
Xbox display technology turns your room into a ‘holodeck’ of sorts (video)
With the high volume of new products and flashy prototypes vying for attention at the 2013 CES, very few have shown the kind of innovation needed to bring humanity one step closer to creating the ultimate consumer electronic device: a holodeck.