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Maverick Supports Surface Hub with Services

by Bob Raikes

Maverick, the AV division of Tech Data in Europe, said that it has now sold 6,000 Microsoft Surface Hub sets in Europe and is now launching a range of bespoke physical and virtual services …

Tags:Collaboration| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| TechData| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Microsoft to add Deep Neural Networks

by Bob Raikes

The next version of the Microsoft Hololens headset will have a special Deep Neural Network (DNN) chip according to a Microsoft blog. The current version has a Holographic Processing Unit, or HPU that processes …

Tags:AR/VR| Microsoft| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 27

Electrosonic Becomes Microsoft Hub Partner

by Bob Raikes

Electrosonic of the UK has become a partner of Microsoft for the Surface Hub collaboration product.

Microsoft Thinks True Mixed Reality is Five Years Away

by Bob Raikes

Although Microsoft is developing ‘Mixed Reality’ headsets with PC OEMs based on the Holographic platform that are expected to be here later this year, Microsoft XBox boss, Phil Spencer told Time in an interview …

Microsoft Surface Laptop Scores Zero for Repairability

by Alan Spencer

The teardown experts, iFixit gave Apple’s new MacBooks a very poor 1/10 score for repairability, but now Microsoft has gone one worse with its new Surface Laptop which gets zero out of 10, meaning …

Microsoft Resuscitates the Baby

by Jon Peddie

The father of the PC was IBM and so we suppose Microsoft was the mother. The godfather of the PC may turn out to be Qualcomm if what we saw in Taipei is any …

Tags:Microsoft| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 23| Windows

Xbox One X Unveiled

by Yvette Raikes

Microsoft’s “project Scorpio” has now been announced as the Xbox One X. It will have the Scorpio gaming processor with 6Tflops of memory and 326GB/s bandwidth, as well as 12GB of GDDR5 graphic memory. …

Tags:Consoles| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 23| xBox

Asus & Dell Update Windows Holographic Headsets

by Bob Raikes

At the Computex show, Microsoft showed a number of Windows ‘Mixed reality’ including updates from Asus and Dell. Microsoft is talking of the platform using the Microsoft Holographic brand. Asus (left) and Dell (right) …

Microsoft Researching Better AR Displays

by Arthur Berman

Paraphrasing a recent publication by a team of researchers at Microsoft Research: the lightweight optics typically found in the current generation of virtual, augmented and mixed reality near-eye displays cannot be scaled to provide …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holographic Displays| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Surface Studio comes to UK

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft’s Surface Studio all-in-one – designed for creatives – is due to be available in the UK on the 15th June. The unit will have a starting price of £2,999, with higher specification models …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Microsoft Research Publishes Results on a Phase Only Holographic Projection System

by Norbert Hildebrand

Siggraph 2017 is shaping up to be a very interesting conference for holographic display enthusiasts. Just a little while ago Facebook / Oculus announced their work on a head mounted display system to overcome …

Volumetric Capture Gaining Acceptance

by Chris Chinnock

For virtual reality capture, there are two basic techniques: Inside out features an array of cameras on a single rig looking outward. This is most common type of VR capture Outside in features dozens …