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Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research
Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish…
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Cardiolens. “Pulse and Vital Sign Measurement in Mixed Reality using a HoloLens”
Cardiography, quantitative measurement of the functioning of the heart, traditionally requires customized obtrusive contact sensors. Using new methods photoplethysmography and ballistocardiography signals can be captured using ubiquitous sensors, such as webcams and accelerometers. However, these…
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I Chose STEM – Event Recap
Earlier this week Microsoft Research Montreal celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) with a one-day symposium: I Chose STEM. More than 200 Canadian STEM students and…
Project
Cardi♥lens
Imagine if you could look at someone and see their heart beat? Surgeons could see whether a transplanted organ/tissue has blood flowing to it.· Physical trainers would be able to see if athletes are in…
Tool
Microsoft Eye Drive
Microsoft Eye Drive is a virtual joystick that you control using only your eyes. Eye Drive started in 2017 as a collaboration between Team Gleason (opens in new tab) and Microsoft, and was kicked off…
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Typing in the Virtual Office Environment: Examining the Effects of Keyboard and Hand Representation in VR
Much of the hype around Virtual Reality, or VR, has focused on immersive gaming and entertainment, but the technology also has profound implications for enhancing the way we work. Imagine the perfect office environment: multiple…
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Text Entry in Immersive HMDisplay-based VR using Physical and Touch Keyboards
We study the performance and user experience of two popular mainstream text entry devices, desktop keyboards, and touchscreen keyboards, for use in Virtual Reality (VR) applications. We discuss the limitations arising from limited visual feedback…
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Effects of Hand Representations for Type in VR
In IEEE VR 2018 Alphanumeric text entry is a challenge for Virtual Reality (VR) applications. VR enables new capabilities, impossible in the real world, such as an unobstructed view of the keyboard, without occlusion by the…
Podcast
Neural Program Synthesis and the Quest to Democratize Programming with Dr. Rishabh Singh
Episode 10, January 31, 2018 – We can program computers to do almost anything. But what about programming computers to… program computers? That’s a task that Dr. Rishabh Singh, and the team in the Cognition…
Microsoft Research Blog
Learn Artificial Intelligence Skills via Residency at Microsoft
Harness Machine Learning to Improve People’s Lives At Microsoft, we are committed to leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to benefit people and greater society. Advances in AI can be applied to address some…
