Microsoft: We Had to Wait Until After E3 to Change Our DRM Policies

It seems reception from the all-important gamer audience at E3 forced Microsoft’s hand.
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Oculus Co-Founders Luckey and Mitchell on the Rift’s Progress, Price and Limitations (Q&A, Part One)

“You want to take it to the level where they’re not just looking around in the game, but they’re interacting in the same way that they would interact with real life.”
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Meta Wants to Become the Next Augmented-Reality Glasses Phenom

Meta wearers can interact with virtual games, architectural renderings and other 3-D objects by using their hands.
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A New Game for Microsoft’s Kinect

From retail to health care, developers are building products based on the motion sensing device.

Heads Turn as Microsoft Shows Off 3-D Scanning Techniques

The software giant demonstrates three different means of capturing a fully three-dimensional scan: A simple smartphone app, the depth-sensing Kinect sensor and a more elaborate camera array.
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Microsoft’s Science Fair Is So Cool. So Why Aren’t Its Products?

How can the company be doing such pioneering work in so many areas and yet not be first to commercial success more often?
A Microsoft tool called GeoFlow presents Excel data visually -- in this case Seattle drug arrest data.

Xbox Remains Top Console in U.S., but PlayStation’s Strength Is Global

There’s no doubt about Xbox’s strength in the U.S., but internationally, the PlayStation still dominates.
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Microsoft Fancies Itself a Content Producer Again

Former CBS executive Nancy Tellem talks about the 125-person production studio Microsoft has opened in Santa Monica in hope of getting its first original content onto the Xbox later this year.
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Xbox by the Numbers: 76M Devices, and They’re Not All Used by Dudes

According to Microsoft, 38 percent of Xbox users are women, and more than 51 percent are people who have kids.
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The Commercial Birth of Natural Computing

Imagine talking to your next-gen TV with the same tone and sentence structure you would use with a friend.
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