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Dec 6, 2015
From AI and data science to cryptography: Microsoft researchers offer 16 predictions for ’16
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, science
Dec 5, 2015
This Waterproof Quadcopter Is Also a Submarine
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Dec 5, 2015
Finland plans to give every citizen a basic income of 800 euros a month — By Olivia Goldhill | Quartz
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: governance
“The Finnish government is currently drawing up plans to introduce a national basic income. A final proposal won’t be presented until November 2016, but if all goes to schedule, Finland will scrap all existing benefits and instead hand out 800 euros per month—to everyone.”
Dec 5, 2015
Two pro drivers raced against each other while wearing VR headsets—here’s what they saw
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: virtual reality
Dec 5, 2015
Here’s everything Microsoft got right about today’s technology back in 1999
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Dec 5, 2015
Iron Man Hulkbuster costume at New York’s Comic Con
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Also you should watch Giant Fully-Mechanized Hulkbuster Toy Has a Full Iron Man Inside SDCC 2015 http://goo.gl/4KLlP1
Video courtesy Tech Insider.
Dec 5, 2015
Autodesk will bring digital designs into the real world with Microsoft’s HoloLens
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: augmented reality
Autodesk and Microsoft have teamed up to bring virtual product designs into the real world using augmented reality. The two companies announced on Monday that Autodesk Fusion 360 — software that lets users design, test, and ultimately manufacture physical objects — will connect with Microsoft’s HoloLens headset.
Right now, details about the final product are scarce, but the two companies have spent time working together over the past year on bringing 3D models from a screen to the real world by displaying them to users wearing the HoloLens. The collaboration could make it possible for designers working in Fusion to work together on digital models in the physical world, if everyone involved is wearing one of Microsoft’s augmented reality headsets.
Doing that has the potential to be a boon for product designers, since they wouldn’t have to spend as much time manufacturing physical prototypes to be able to see how a product could look in real life. The HoloLens likely won’t replace physical prototyping entirely, though: the device’s field of view is fairly limited at this point, which means that it could be hard for designers to get a full feeling of what an some objects would look like, especially if they’re particularly large.
