Two top experts join the HoloLens team, what kind of black technology will Microsoft launch?

HoloLens has been released for more than a year. Experienced friends probably have a feeling - in fact, this black technology is not as cool as Microsoft has shown. However, Microsoft seems to be preparing for the next step. The HoloLens team is frantically recruiting talent. Jamie Shotton, the chief scientist at Microsoft Research, and Mark Bolas, the founder of VR, are the two most concerned.

Recently, Jamie Shotton officially announced on the social network that he has joined the HoloLens team and will lead the computer research team of Microsoft Cambridge Research Institute to create a more cool and mixed reality experience.

Since its release in 2015, Microsoft HoloLens has been using the same display effect of science fiction movies as a futuristic interactive experience. It has been considered as one of the hottest mixed reality devices in the field of black technology.

However, Microsoft does not seem to be content with this. The latest news shows that they now want computer graphics cards to help HoloLens perform more complex graphics calculations through WiFi connections, giving users a more realistic visual experience. According to industry analysts, this is also an important reason why industry boss Jamie Shotton joined the HoloLens team at this time.

Let's take a look at who Jamie Shotton is.

Jamie Shotton is a master's degree graduate in computer science at Cambridge University. He then entered the Cambridge University computer vision major with his second grade grade. He graduated with a Ph.D.

As the most promising Fellow in computer vision and graphics processing, Jamie Shotton joined Microsoft Research as early as June 2008 and has participated in Microsoft computer image recognition, Kinect form prediction, gesture tracking and recognition, and artificial intelligence open source. The development of many projects such as the platform Malmo AI.

During his tenure, Jamie Shotton has won numerous top prizes for his outstanding work output, such as the 2011 Gold Medal Robert Award awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the Kinect Somatosensory Recognition Project, the 2012 Microsoft Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and 2014 PAMI Youth Research. Awards and the 2015 MIT Best Technology Review Innovator Awards up to the age of 35, etc.

During these 8 years, Jamie Shotton has become recognized as the chief scientist in the field of computer vision with outstanding work ability and research results.

This time, Microsoft transferred Jamie Shotton from other institutes to the HoloLens team. Obviously he took a look at his years of research experience and technology accumulation in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. He intends to make him more cool and more natural for HoloLens in the future. Visual interactive effects do their part.

Coincidentally, in addition to Jamie Shotton, Microsoft's HoloLens team also recruited a VR industry's founder-level figure a few days agoâ€”Oculus founder's mentor and Mark Bolas, a pioneer in mixed reality.

As a pioneer in the VR industry, Mark Bolas has already started research on VR technology as early as the 1980s. Before Google Cardboard was launched, Mark Bolas designed a mobile-powered VR box.

Of course, Mark Bolas is also a very good mentor. He trained a large number of excellent practitioners in the VR industry at the University of California mixed reality laboratory. For example, Palmer Luckey, one of the founders of Oculus, was his student.

More importantly, Mark Bolas is not only a renowned researcher in the field of VR hardware, but also an acclaimed developer with a pioneering game "Raw Data" called "VR Watch". This shows that Mark Bolas has his own unique insights in the VR software ecosystem, in addition to his deep technical accumulation in the field of VR hardware.

According to foreign media reports, based on Mark Bolas's years of technical accumulation and contacts in the VR field, Microsoft is likely to use both VR hardware and software ecosystems at the same time. This will bring incompetence to competitors such as Sony and EA. Small impact.

With the addition of Mark Bolas, the patriarch of the VR field, and Jamie Shotton, the chief expert of computer vision, we can see that Microsoft attaches great importance to HoloLens and can see that Microsoft has placed the future of HoloLens. Deeply expectation. As an average user, we have reason to believe that HoloLens will bring more surprises.