“Throwing your voice” with Spatial Audio

2016-09-16 KENNETH 0

“Throwing your voice” with Spatial Audio The age-old act of ventroquilism sees a puppet move its mouth while the controlling ventriloquist speaks without moving their lips – pretty impressive! The underlying technique has the ventriloquist “throwing” their voice in a joint audial and visual illusion. Enter Spatial Audio, a set of ground breaking technologies originally created by Microsoft for HoloLens and now being exposed to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Unity apps. The underlying “technique” of Spatial Audio is mapping how audio reaches each ear and how headshape, ear contours, the inner ear and the brain make sense of this audio to determine the 3D source of a sound. Audio is then “positioned” for each ear, unique to its physical orientation. This is known as “binaural audio.” In many ways, binaural audio mirrors the various illusions used in the HoloLens [ more… ]

Microsoft HoloLens enables thyssenkrupp to transform the global elevator industry

2016-09-16 KENNETH 0

Microsoft HoloLens enables thyssenkrupp to transform the global elevator industry Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to share some exciting news about the work thyssenkrupp Elevator is doing with Microsoft HoloLens. Today, in New York City at One World Trade Center, we demonstrated how thyssenkrupp (and innovation that only HoloLens makes possible) has the potential to transform their industry and help over 1 billion daily elevator passengers get to where they need to go with ease, safety and reliability. In a world where more than 12 million elevators transport over 1 billion people each day (a number that is constantly growing), it is imperative elevator service innovation grows ahead of the pace. Enter thyssenkrupp. Video produced and provided by thyssenkrupp. Utilizing HoloLens, they found that they could dramatically improve response time, increase efficiency, raise elevator uptimes and speed [ more… ]

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USN-3080-1: Python Imaging Library vulnerabilities

2016-09-15 KENNETH 0

USN-3080-1: Python Imaging Library vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3080-1 15th September, 2016 python-imaging vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Python Imaging Libary could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input or opened a specially crafted file. Software description python-imaging – Python Imaging Library Details Eric Soroos discovered that the Python Imaging Library incorrectly handled certain malformed FLI or PhotoCD files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Python Imaging Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-0775, CVE-2016-2533) Andrew Drake discovered that the Python Imaging Libray incorrectly validated input. A remote attacker could use this to cause Python Imaging Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3589) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following [ more… ]

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MySQL 8.0: Persisting configuration variables

2016-09-15 KENNETH 0

MySQL 8.0: Persisting configuration variables Starting with MySQL 8.0 we are introducing a new feature which will allow configuration variables to be persisted. This means that for a number of configuration settings, you will no longer need to manually edit a configuration file and can instead make modifications directly via an SQL connection.… Source: MySQL 8.0: Persisting configuration variables