Month: November 2012
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Microsoft Research to ship Kinected Browser JavaScript library for Kinect-enabled websites
Dan Liebling and Meredith R. Morris from Microsoft Research will be presenting today at the 2012 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces about their project “Kinected Browser: Depth Camera Interaction for the Web“, a toolkit which enables web developers to detect Kinect gestures and speech using a simple JavaScript library. With the introduction…
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Les Patterns des Grands du Web – Feature Team
Description Dans l’article « Pizza Team », nous avons vu que les géants du Web prêtaient beaucoup d’attention à la taille de leurs équipes. Mais ce n’est pas le seul point de vigilance qu’ils ont sur leurs équipes : ils veillent aussi fréquemment à avoir des équipes organisées par fonctionnalité, autrement dit des « feature teams ».…
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Personify Live Uses Microsoft Kinect Or Other Depth Cameras For A Video Conferencing Service That Layers Presenters Over Content
A video conferencing startup called Personify, Inc. (formerly Nuvixa) is launching its first product next week, which will allow users to take advantage of the motion sensing technology in Microsoft Kinect and other depth cameras in order to overlay video of themselves on top of their presentations in real-time. Using the Personify Live software, users can…
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Pattern UI : Les Headers et footers XXL dans le webdesign
Les tendances du webdesign ont évolué très rapidement ces dernières années. Parmi celles-ci, on trouve des headers (les hauts de page) très imposants et des footers (les bas de pages) king size ! Ces deux éléments sont devenus les clés de voute d’un bon webdesign et d’un look&feel efficace … Cette évolution que l’on observe…
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Windows Phone 8: Evolution of the Runtime and Application Compatibility
Long time back at the wake of the release of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) I posted about the Windows Phone 7 series programming model. I also published how .NET Compact framework powered the applications on WP7. Further simplifying the block diagram, we can think of the entire WP7 application system as follows As with most…
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Windows Phone 8 developer platform highlights
Earlier this week, at the //BUILD 2012 conference, we announced the Windows Phone 8 developer platform, the most significant enhancement to our dev platform to date. Built on a common core shared with Windows 8, the dev platform is all new – from the underlying subsystems to the APIs and tools. Because so much has…
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Kinect Fusion Coming to Kinect for Windows
Last week, I had the privilege of giving attendees at the Microsoft event, BUILD 2012, a sneak peek at an unreleased Kinect for Windows tool: Kinect Fusion. Kinect Fusion was first developed as a research project at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, U.K. As soon as the Kinect for Windows community saw it, they began…
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Windows Phone 8: les premiers articles techniques de la communauté
Voila quelques jours que le SDK Windows Phone 8 est disponible et la communauté a déjà été très active pour publier des articles détaillant les nouvelles fonctionnalités de celui-ci… Voici un petit billet pour lister ceux que j’ai trouvé (et que je mettrai à jour au fur et à mesure, n’hésitez pas à commenter). La…
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Touring the Windows Phone 8 Dev Center
In addition to launching Windows Phone 8 and our new developer platform this week, we also refreshed the Dev Center, which is now ready for Windows Phone 8 app submissions. In case you haven’t had a chance to look around yet, I’ll briefly walk you through some of the highlights and tell you how you…
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BUILD 2012: Pay attention to Windows 8 app performance on ARM devices
As thousands of BUILD attendees unboxed their Surface RT devices, one of the first things they did was to try out how their Windows 8 apps ran. Unfortunately for many of them, including us the MetroTwit developers, we witnessed notable performance issues. It turns out this is to be expected, especially since Windows RT devices…