Larry Larsen
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Larry Larsen is a senior technologist at Microsoft working on Channel 9.
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Defrag: Compatibility Series Part 2Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to DefragShow@microsoft.com...
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Bill Buxton and Jeff Han - Part 4 of 4Recently I wondered what it would be like to get Bill Buxton from Microsoft Research and Jeff Han from Perceptive Pixel together to talk about technology. In part four: The repeated death and resurrection of 3D and the future of display innovations.
[00:10] - The many deaths and the future...
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Defrag: Compatibility Series Part 1Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to DefragShow@microsoft.com...
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Bill Buxton and Jeff Han - Part 3 of 4Recently I wondered what it would be like to get Bill Buxton from Microsoft Research and Jeff Han from Perceptive Pixel together to talk about technology. In part three: We look back at another past technology Bill worked on that Jeff is helping to carry forward and a look at the current...
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Remembering Richard FeynmanIt was 26 years ago today that Richard Feynman passed away. Thanks to Bill Gates, Microsoft Research was able to post Feynman's 1964 physics lectures online. Known as Project Tuva, the site hosts videos along with related content and the ability to apply your own note annotations. The name...
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Bill Buxton and Jeff Han - Part 2 of 4Recently I wondered what it would be like to get Bill Buxton from Microsoft Research and Jeff Han from Perceptive Pixel together to talk about technology. In part two we find that those who don't know history are destined to repeat it, but those who do know history can improve upon it. ...
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TWC9: Satya Nadella, Scott Guthrie, VS 2013.2, Tips and Tricks and moreThis week on Channel 9, Larry and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;
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Defrag: Finding Win8 Key, UI Hang in Games, Modern App Update LogMicrosoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to ...
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First Anniversary of Modern.IEIt's the first anniversary of the Modern.IE site and Josh Holmes from the IE team joins us to shows us the site and talk about some of the tools it uses to find interop issues and perform cross platform testing for web developers.
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Bill Buxton and Jeff Han - Part 1 of 4Recently I wondered what it would be like to get Bill Buxton from Microsoft Research and Jeff Han from Office together to talk about technology. Bill's pioneering work in human-computer interaction helped build the foundation of ubiquitous computing. A generation later Jeff Han helped to ...
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Bill Buxton and Jeff Han - Part 2 of 4
Feb 19, 2014 at 12:16 PM@jvs_ca:I think that mark is the reflection of our lights on the glossy edge of the back TV. You can also see the overhead lights in the top of the bezel. It drives me crazy too but I haven't yet found a way to conceal them. We'll be using a PPI display for the rear screen eventually and those have matte finish so that should help.
Defrag: Bad RAID, NAS vs Storage Spaces, IPV6
Dec 19, 2013 at 11:52 AM@dtower: I've been able to ditch the desktop for a laptop at work, but at home I've got to have a full graphics card to get my game on and drive 3 monitors. I don't think I could go without a desktop PC.
A Photosynth 2 Overview with David Gedye
Dec 11, 2013 at 1:17 PM@freefly: You need to be on a device that can use WebGL to view these properly. If you're on a device that doesn't support WebGL it degrades to show the Photosynth path as a MP4, but that's not the real experience.
Defrag Tools: #65 - Windows 8.1 - Jeffrey Richter - Windows Runtime via C#
Nov 18, 2013 at 7:56 PM@eduquint: would it help if we had closed captions you could read? What is your native language?
A Look at SkyDrive on Xbox One
Nov 11, 2013 at 1:04 PMI would never "fake" anything in one of my Channel 9 videos... unless it was published on April 1.
Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives
Nov 05, 2013 at 11:08 AM@Fallasteeni: We have made a lot of products for Macs over the years. I suspect it is either one of those products or hardware to allow one of the products we made to be used.
Luminaries: Jeannette Wing of Microsoft Research
Oct 29, 2013 at 6:15 PM@Jeff Birt: Thanks for the feedback Jeff, I'm uploading one right now with bumped up audio.
TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 5.5 million downloads, VS2013 Virtual Launch, ScriptCS and more...
Oct 14, 2013 at 10:27 AM@AdamSpeight2008: Done.
@androidi: I know what you're talking about and I'll try to respond as best I can having used this and other HMD's but keep in mind this isn't really my field of expertise.
The Oculus has two thick lenses in front of the screen. That is your first line of adjustment. If I remember correctly my Canon glasses and the VFX-1 had these lenses as well. Once you have them on there is a single 1280x720 display in front of your face, half devoted to each eye. You typically see this same display on the computer monitor so you can see what they are seeing for the most part (though crossing your eyes as some do to see what they see isn't a good idea because the pictures are backwards and the effect not the same.) This is the first time I've seen a device that did it this way rather than try to have a monitor for each eye. It works quite well.
As for focus, when you look at your monitor at your desk your eyes are getting two completely different pictures and then background processing in your mind is stitching the two together for you. Similar thing here, the software determines how far apart your eyes are (which may need adjusting in the software) and then it paints two pictures at the correct focus gaze distance. Your brain does the rest.
How do military helmets or Google Glass present so close to the eye without it being blurry? I'm not completely sure but I suspect they have a lense like the Oculus that is between the display and the glass it reflects off of.
As for the spacing between pixels being evident, you can see this on the Dev Kit Oculus. They refer to it as the screendoor effect. There are good reports that this will be close to eliminated when the consumer model comes out supporting a 1080 screen. I assume you see the pixels so clearly because the stereo matching your eyes do is down to the pixel and therefore so is the spacing, so the void of light between pixels because apparent at a 3D level which may make it seem a little more obvious. I would ignore the hype, the screendoor effect is not a concern IMHO.
Surface Remix Project
Sep 23, 2013 at 11:39 AMI need that keyboard for Kerbal Space Program.
Defrag: Elevated App, Turning off Tabbed Browsing, Win 8.1 RTM
Sep 19, 2013 at 12:29 PM@uus831: Send me your address and I'll get you a Channel 9 guy. Thanks
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