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Adrian Hall joins Scott Hanselman to explain the new features and demo push notifications in Azure App Service, which is a secure way to use Azure Mobile Apps to integrate mobile apps with Azure Notification Hubs to receive push notifications. Continue reading Easy Push Notifications with Azure App Service | Azure Friday
Arif Kureshy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to extend the Common Data Service (CDS) base schema for custom scenarios. CDS ships with over 65 standard entity sets that you can use to build apps for many common scenarios. Continue reading Extending the Common Data Service Base Schema in PowerApps | Azure Friday
This week on Windows we’re chatting up one of the stars of Assassins Creed, we’re giving you a preview of Originals Week in the Windows Store and we’ll give you some tips to get around your PC faster than ever before! Also hear from Larry Hryb from Xbo… Continue reading Originals Week, Keyboard Shortcuts and more | This Week On Windows
Ink math assistant can now draw graphs of your equations in OneNote for Windows 10!
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Is your business falling victim to silent killers of productivity? Register for the next episode of Office Small Business Academy, “Work Smarter: Productivity Tools for Your Business,” and learn how to develop processes and key disciplines.
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Get ready, Pathfinder. The Ark Hyperion is about to enter the Andromeda Galaxy, marking the beginning of your journey in Mass Effect: Andromeda. On Tuesday, March 21 in North America and Thursday, March 23 in Europe, you’ll take the helm of the Tempest and lead the fight for humanity’s new home. You’ll have a chance to begin your journey even earlier today, when both EA Access and Origin Access members can play up to 10 hours of Mass Effect: Andromeda. Step into the boots of Ryder, meet your first squad members, take the helm of the Tempest, and explore the… Continue reading Mass Effect: Andromeda Play First Trial Now Available
Martin and Martin look at the Custom Speech Service and how it was used in a bot project that Martin Beeby worked on with a company called Beezy. The Custom Speech service allows developers to train a speech recognition engine to specific language data… Continue reading Custom Speech Service and Beezy | Web Hack Wednesday
We’ve blogged about this project before, You’re the Remix with the Kinect, but at the time it was a “Coming Soon” thing. Well now it’s live! 😛
Just as stars illuminated skies for journeys to new lands, a background of string lights has become a familiar touchstone for fans of Seattle-based radio station KEXP, where they discover new music all the time through videos of live acts that perform at its on-site studio.
It’s become such a trademark look for the station that fans often approach Chris Kellogg, director of programming and production operations, when he’s traveling to share their appreciation for the “videos they watch all the time with the twinkly lights in the background.”
Though a partnership with Microsoft, the station recently debuted a revamped room for these live performances that features a permanent, interactive light installation made up of nearly 2,000 LED balls that are organized methodically on three walls and respond to artists’ movements using Kinect sensors. KEXP video producers control each session with a Surface Pro 4 tablet.
“In the back of our minds, we wanted to tip our caps to the old room, but we knew we wanted to do something different,” Kellogg says. “This takes our old lighting design to a whole new level in terms of the look, the flexibility and the ability of the system, propelling us to an exciting space.”
This new installation appears at the station’s new home in Seattle Center, a sprawling city attraction that draws tourists from around the world. The new studio is four times the size of the previous space. These performances, which happen five times a week, are now open to the public through free first-come, first-served day-of tickets — another first – for 75 people in the audience.
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Project Information URL: https://news.microsoft.com/features/new-permanent-light-installation-at-kexp-reimagines-live-room-performances-with-kinect-and-surface
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Thumbnail: Car Seat Headrest performing in the redesigned live room at KEXP in Seattle (Photo by Amber Knecht for KEXP)
