Every 10-15 years we see fundamental paradigm shifts in computing; we’ve seen Desktop computing, Web, Mobile and…well we are seeing the rise of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and from a human-computer interface perspective the rise of augmented, virtual and mixed…
Now you have a shortcut to start the HoloLens emulator (see http://peted.azurewebsites.net/start-hololens-emulator-without-visual-studio/) it would be nice to be able to build and deploy without necessarily opening up Visual Studio. Now, don’t get me wrong; Visual Studio is one of my…
If you find yourself hitting memory allocation issues for the HoloLens emulator (like this) or you want to run the emulator on a separate machine to that which you are running Visual Studio on it can be useful to have…
Since returning my main focus to the fields of Augmented and Virtual reality I have experienced more light-bulb moments than at any time in my previous career. They have lead me to thinking deeply on the future of human computer…
Sketch by Caroline Vermeulen This week I headed down to Brighton to speak at Reasons to be Creative for the first time. Meeting Mike Brondbjerg there reminded me of this project http://peted.azurewebsites.net/ms-band-server/ which connected data from a Microsoft Band to…
This is a step-by-step guide to writing an Bot in C# using the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET template. You will need to have collected some sleep data using a Microsoft Band and have had that synchronised up to the…
I promised earlier (http://peted.azurewebsites.net/fake-microsoft-band/) to share some more details about the client-side of the Band on the Run project I have been working on alongside my colleague at Microsoft David Gristwood.We set the project up initially as a learning opportunity…
Gameopolis have been working with we’ve been working with Hack Manchester to create the UK’s biggest competitive game jam in Manchester on 20th-22nd May 2016, called Jamchester. Microsoft are one of the sponsors and I will be there with my…
Since my previous posts on Windows Phone mobile VR http://peted.azurewebsites.net/windows-phone-mobile-vr-update/ Microsoft Virtual Academy has published a six-part course called Creating Virtual and Augmented Reality Apps on the Windows Platform where Louis Deane (VISR-VR CEO) and I discuss Virtual Reality, Augmented…
As we make steady progress from a world where the user input to a computer or mobile device consists of flat two dimensional elements controlled by mouse and keyboard it is not difficult to imagine more natural ways to interact…