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Watch a demonstration of RetroDepth, a vision-based system that accurately senses the 3-D silhouettes of hands and other objects as they interact on and above physical surfaces.

HereHere NYC is a research project that enables neighborhoods to generate opinions based on public data.

3D Reconstruction Vision Demo

Cortana, the worldΓÇÖs first truly personal digital assistant, is available soon on Windows Phone 8.1.

SuperKid concept

The Situated Interaction project, a research effort co-led by Eric Horvitz, a Microsoft distinguished scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research Redmond, and his colleague Dan Bohus

Air Mine

Project Louise is an ongoing, multiyear prototyping effort to build an automated personal assistant. This video shows an early Windows Phone prototype of the Louise personal assistant.

Next Gen Webcam - Win8

The app is designed to build a digital 3-D model based on imagery gathered from panning a mobile phone around an object.

Interview of Nathalie-Kosciosko-Morizet, French Secretary of State and Prospective Development of the Digital Economy.

3D Reconstruction Vision Demo

Depth Image Raw Demo for Gesture Webcam

Face alignment abstract.

We show how PowerPoint can be augmented with a Software Assistant able to 'watch' the user create content, in order to provide different kinds of new services.

TerminAnt is a conceptual AR game on WindowsPhone7 .

We are proposing a new system to enhance the tactile experience of digital painting hat includes multi-strokes for different painting needs.

Holograph is an interactive, 3-D data-visualization research platform that can render static and dynamic data above or below the plane of the display using a variety of 3-D stereographic techniques.

On January 16, 2014, Microsoft researchers and Windows Phone engineers set out to challenge the Guinness World Records fastest text message using a touch-screen mobile phone record.

Many people are working on near-field user-interface devices that detect hover, gesture, and pose. But there is nothing in the space in front of a device to show the user what to do.

RoCuModel is a new tangible modeling interface which combines a specific curve as a tangible modeling proxy input which can also generate a volumetric 3D image to preview the model before fabrication.

This project uses head-mounted displays, Kinect skeletal tracking, a custom hardware controller, and a large display for the public to watch vicariously.

Kris Tolle, a director at Microsoft Research, demonstrates the process of using DataUp to post files to a repository for sharing.

Societies and governments around the world want to know how the biosphere is likely to change and what we can do to avoid or mitigate against it.

ViiBoard is a system for remote collaboration through a digital whiteboard (PPI) that gives participants an immersive, 3-D experience with enhanced touch capability.

This project offers a method for creating 3-D scans of arbitrary environments in real time, utilizing only a single RGB camera as the input sensor.

Tempe is an interactive system for exploring large data sets. It accelerates faster machine learning by facilitating quick, iterative feature engineering and data understanding.

Leslie Lamport of Microsoft Research is rewarded for his outstanding contributions to computer science with the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

Urban air quality -- the concentration of PM2.5 -- is of great importance in protecting human health.

Kris Tolle, a director at Microsoft Research, guides DataUp administrators through the tools and features for helping them administer repositories and files.