{"id":119319,"date":"2017-07-25T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119319"},"modified":"2017-07-25T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T08:45:36","slug":"microsofts-new-hololens-will-include-an-ai-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/119319-microsofts-new-hololens-will-include-an-ai-processor","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s new HoloLens will include an AI processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said the next iteration of its HoloLens AR headset will<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/second-version-hololens-hpu-will-incorporate-ai-coprocessor-implementing-dnns\/?ranMID=24542&amp;ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&amp;ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-BCDYhoygGrFq2A4kJCV9RA&amp;tduid=(82905050f35a74d85dc3c85221bf2fd0)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-BCDYhoygGrFq2A4kJCV9RA)()\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">include a deep-learning coprocessor<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The company designed and built its own custom multiprocessor called the Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) for its mixed-reality device.<\/p>\n<p>The HPU processes information from onboard sensors \u2013 such as inertial measurement, head tracking, and infrared tracking.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s HPU chip will also include an AI coprocessor, which will natively implement Deep Neural Networks, improving recognition accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The chip supports a wide variety of layer types which are fully programmable by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/221464-we-wont-kill-paint-microsoft.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">We won\u2019t kill Paint \u2013 Microsoft<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said the next iteration of its HoloLens AR headset will\u00a0include a deep-learning coprocessor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":86640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13274,91],"class_list":["post-119319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hololens","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}