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Meet Surface user Nate Mars – music producer, sound designer and content creator Nate Mars – Music Producer, Sound Designer and Immersive Content Creator Meet Nate Mars: a producer and music technologist based in New York City. He has released original music on several labels in addition to having songs licensed for documentary films and television. Nate is passionate about artist-to-artist music education, specifically helping inspire other producers to achieve their music production goals through collaboration and technology. In addition to his work as a recording artist, Nate works as a content marketing consultant and strategist. For several years, he held the position of Marketing Director at music production & DJ school Dubspot. Nate has also worked in the tech startup world with companies such as music production platform/app creator Splice and Virtual Reality startup, SpaceoutVR. He has been the [ more… ]

Tailoring your app for Xbox and the TV (App Dev on Xbox series) As promised, we are continuing the wave of sharing what we kicked off last week during the “App Dev on Xbox” event. Every week for the next two months, we will be releasing a new blog post where we will focus on a specific topic around UWP app development where Xbox One will be the hero device. With each post, we will be sharing a demo app experience around that topic, and open sourcing the source code on GitHub so anyone can download it and learn from it. For the first blog post, we thought we’d continue the conversation around premium experiences, or better said, how to take your beautiful app and tailor it for the TV in order to delight your users. The Premium Experience Apps [ more… ]

This Week on Windows: Halo 5, a Solitaire milestone and more Here’s what’s new in the Windows Store this week: We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! To learn more about how you can search your PC and web with Cortana*, check out our Windows 10 Tips blog post. Head over here to read about the Microsoft Solitaire Collection milestone and learn all the ways you can get ready for the football season with Microsoft, and keep reading to see what’s new in the Windows Store! Halo 5: Forge Bundle for Windows 10 PCs – Free We are bringing the Forge toolset to Windows 10 PCs with the release of the Halo 5: Forge Bundle. The precision, speed and control available on PC using keyboard and mouse will make it easier than ever for creators to bring their Halo [ more… ]

Bringing WebVR to Microsoft Edge Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve begun development on experimental WebVR support in Microsoft Edge! WebVR is the next frontier in web graphics, enabling developers to create a wide range of truly immersive experiences for a variety of devices. Innovative and immersive WebVR content is already showing up on the web, and we expect to see even more coming as developers turn WebGL experiences into WebVR experiences. A stereoscopic screen capture from “Mars One” Mission, an example WebVR scene on SketchFab We’ve been working on advancing the W3C WebVR specification — along with Mozilla, Google, Oculus and others — to ensure that web developers have a faster, more powerful, and interoperable tool. We look forward to sharing more software and hardware details soon as our implementation progresses. As always, we welcome your feedback as [ more… ]