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  • Adapting your WebKit-optimized site for Internet Explorer 10

    Ensuring that your site works great on Windows Phone 8 is easier than ever, thanks to extensive HTML5 support in Internet Explorer 10. You might currently target WebKit on a site specifically optimized to support iOS or Android. Now, it’s very easy to adapt a WebKit-optimized site to also support IE10. This means you’ll have…

  • Unique Cancer Treatment Center alex’s place Uses Kinect for Windows to Help Put Kids at Ease

    A unique clinic for treating children with cancer and blood disorders, alex’s place is designed to be a warm, open, communal space. The center—which is located in Miami, Florida—helps put its patients at ease by engaging them with interactive screens that allow them to be transported into different environments—where they become a friendly teddy bear,…

  • jKinect : « kinectify the web »

    Comme dirait Steve Ballmer : “Kinect, Kinect, Kinect”. Si vous n’avez jamais entendu parler de Kinect, vous étiez surement dans une cave durant les 2 dernières années (je ne vous en veux pas, dans ce cas lisez Kinect: Tour d’horizon tout naturellement). En début d’année (février 2012), Kinect s’est invité officiellement sur les PC grâce…

  • 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…

  • 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 ».…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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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