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This Week on Windows: ReCore, Star Trek and updates to your action center We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Head over here to read more about the updates to your action center available with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Read more about the new powerful desktop apps in the Windows Store or keep reading to see what’s new in the Windows Store! Here’s what’s new in the Windows Store this week: ReCore – Buy for $39.99 ReCore, the first Xbox Play Anywhere game, is available on Xbox One and Windows 10 in North America, Latin America and most Asian countries. From acclaimed creator Keiji Inafune’s Comcept Inc., Armature Studio, the makers of the award-winning Metroid Prime franchise, and Microsoft Studios, ReCore is an original action-adventure game crafted for the modern generation. Learn more over at Xbox Wire and [ more… ]

Fortune-ranked #27 winner and Surface fan Yen Hoang What do the Fortune 100 list of fastest- growing inner city companies and Surface have in common? UYL COLOR SUPPLY CEO Yen Hoang. Yen jokes that she loves her Surface Pro so much that “it’s like my third child!” “As the CEO of a fast-growing small business, I need to remain flexible and have the ability to make quick decisions to capitalize on emerging opportunities. Surface helps me do just that.”  Yen Hoang, CEO of UYL Color, and full time companion of her Surface Yen relies on her Surface Pro as her primary tool to stay organized so she can tackle work and life every day. She loves that she can use Surface like a desktop when putting in a long day at the office or as a tablet so she can [ more… ]

Unity Interop and App Extensibility (App Dev on Xbox series) Continuing what we started during the “App Dev on Xbox” event, today we are making available yet another app experience – Atmosphere. In this blog post, you will learn how to get started building great 2D and 3D experiences with Unity and XAML, how to open up your app so other app developers can extend your app functionality, and how you can make your app functionality available to other apps. Even though this blog post is part of the App Dev on Xbox series, the majority of the content applies to the entire Universal Windows Platform. If you missed the previous blog post, we looked at how you can deliver the best possible experience for your app in a responsive and scalable way so it can target all device form [ more… ]

“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… ]