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Microsoft created Captionbot.ai, which is a tremendously addictive (and science-fiction-grade awesome).

A new Microsoft Translator API adds real-time speech-to-speech (and speech to text) translation capabilities to the existing text translation API. Powered by Microsoft’s state-of-the-art AI technologies, this capability has been available to millions of users…

The company is developing technology that can transmit 3D models of people anywhere in the world. Online video chatting is so last year: Microsoft now wants to connect far-flung family and friends through holograms. The…

Whether you need to inform Obi-Wan he’s your only hope, or just want to hang out with loved ones who are far, far away, who hasn’t dreamed of a future involving holograms? Microsoft’s “holoportation” demo…

Forget that galaxy far, far away. Microsoft’s Holoportation looks better than anything a droid could project. (If you don’t mind the headgear.) Watch Update below for a look at what it takes to transport yourself…

Microsoft has made Star Wars-style holographic communication possible with its new HoloLens. The technology giant is yet to release the HoloLens as its technology experts continue to experiment with what it is capable of doing.…

Microsoft Research shows off how HoloLens can bring distant family members into your living room. Last June Microsoft showed off its HoloLens tech that created holograms from live video. Now it’s putting that into practice…

You can do a lot of impressive things with HoloLens, Microsoft’s augmented reality (AR) headset. But there’s a new thing Microsoft Research’s Interactive 3D Technologies (I3D) team has developed with the HoloLens, and, uh, it’s…

Microsoft sure seems to be having a ton of fun with HoloLens while the rest of us wait for it to stop being a research project and become a real thing that we can purchase…

Microsoft’s HoloLens has delivered some pretty cool imagery in recent months, but many are still wondering what practical use they’d have for the device on a daily basis. Microsoft may have just answered that question…