Microsoft Research

IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept Microsoft Research project designed to push the boundary of living room immersive entertainment by blending our virtual and physical worlds with projected

Outliers is a book about success. It starts with a very simple question: what is the difference between those who do something special with their lives and everyone else?

This talk discards hand-wavy pop-science metaphors and answers a simple question: from a computer science perspective, how can a quantum computer outperform a classical computer?

Simon Sinek's mission is to help people wake up every day inspired to go to work and return home every night fulfilled by their work.

HoloDesk is a novel interactive system combining an optical see through display and Kinect camera to create the illusion that users are directly interacting with 3D graphics.

Modern touch devices allow one to interact with virtual objects. However, there is a substantial delay between when a finger moves and the display responds.

Sarah Wilson thought of herself as a relatively healthy eater. She didn't realize how much sugar was hidden in her diet, or how much it was affecting her well-being.

RoomAlive is a proof-of-concept prototype that transforms any room into an immersive, augmented entertainment experience.

Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language.

AI advancements are outpacing expectations and presenting novel opportunities and research challenges. In this video, Microsoft Senior Principal Research Manager Ahmed H.

Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.

New research uses a mobile phone’s ability to sense how you are gripping the device, as well as when and where the fingers are approaching it, to adapt interfaces on the fly.

Presented at Microsoft TechForum 2012 Behind the Screen Overlay Interactions: Behind-the-screen interaction with a transparent OLED with view-dependent, depth-corrected gaze.

IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept system that augments the area surrounding a television with projected visualiza­tions to enhance traditional gaming experiences.

Translate your spreadsheets in a snap with the Translator features of Microsoft Excel! This quick tutorial will show you everything you need to begin translating right away.

Introducing Microsoft Project Natick, a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter.

Microsoft's Scott Evans and Kareem Choudhry show off the eyes of the new Xbox One Kinect.

Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation, and

MobileFusion is a research project that turns ordinary mobile phones into 3D scanners without any additional hardware.

Vermeer is a novel interactive 360° viewable display suitable for a tabletop form factor from Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Read more: aka.ms/Rqyu4m Visit the project page: aka.ms/S3hymz Microsoft's Project Natick is leveraging technology from submarines and working with pioneers in marine energy for the

Do you have a Microsoft Word document that you want translated into another language?

Architects draw detailed blueprints before a brick is laid or a nail is hammered. Programmers and software engineers seldom do. A blueprint for software is called a specification.

We present FlexSense, a new thin-film, transparent sensing surface based on printed piezoelectric sensors, which can reconstruct complex deformations without the need for any external sensing, such

Get Microsoft Pix FREE today at aka.ms/MSPix. Microsoft Pix is a smart camera app that automatically helps you take better photos without extra effort.

Digits, a wrist-worn gloveless sensor developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, U.K., enables 3-D computer interaction in any environment and is practical beyond computer gaming.

Data that needs to be stored long-term is growing exponentially. Existing storage technologies have a limited lifetime, and regular data migration is needed, resulting in high cost.

Image Composite Editor 2.0 introduces new features to the popular advanced panoramic image stitcher, including a new automatic image completion feature, which fills in the missing pixels when

Read more at Next at Microsoft: aka.ms/999990 Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game

Street Slide is a novel browsing interface for street-level imagery that combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of "bubbles" with the overview provided by multiperspective strip