Microsoft

We recently surveyed 520 consumers about smart speakers and found that over 45% of respondents own at least one smart speaker. 9% of smart speaker owners surveyed owned more than one. In a similar survey earlier this year, only 27%…

We asked Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana 800 questions each. This time, Google Assistant was able to answer 86% of them correctly vs. Siri at 79%, Alexa at 61%, and Cortana at 52%. As part of our ongoing effort…

Apple has been criticized for not doing enough in AI. Two recent announcements show the company is closing the gap. In the past two weeks, the company has announced the hiring of Google’s AI head, and an AI partnership with…

In what is becoming an annual tradition, we entered a bracket chosen by artificial intelligence into the Loup Ventures March Madness pool. (See our 2017 results here) Given this year has proven especially challenging to predict due to the uncanny number…

We recently surveyed 520 US consumers about smart speakers and found that 89% of respondents were satisfied with them. A closer look at the results reveals the reason for this high satisfaction; early use cases are simple (Music, weather, general…

Smart speakers are quickly becoming one of the most common consumer uses of AI thanks to aggressive pricing and marketing from companies like Amazon and Google. We've conducted our latest round of queries, designed to test the full range of…

On Tuesday, Google released a developer preview of ARCore, a platform for developers to build augmented reality apps for Android. ARCore brings augmented reality to the world’s largest mobile operating system, starting with just the Pixel and Galaxy S8, but…

Written by guest author Lindsay Boyajian at Conductor Since Amazon announced its acquisition of Whole Foods, the running joke across social media has been, “Jeff Bezos said to Alexa, ‘Buy me something on Whole Foods,’ and Alexa bought Whole Foods.” This quip highlights the…

Fans of virtual reality gaming didn’t hear quite as many announcements as they were hoping to last week at E3. While Sony and PC platforms announced some impressive titles launching in VR, Microsoft was silent about VR despite releasing the…

The importance of voice assistants in the screenless future is hard to overestimate. We see speech-driven user interfaces as a key component of the next computing paradigm, so it’s helpful to understand empirically where each platform stands today. In February, we compared…

Typically, when we talk about the future of AR and VR, the first companies that come to mind are Apple, Google, Facebook, and Snapchat; however, Microsoft does not receive enough credit for the strong positioning it has already built.

Apple is increasingly focused on being a dominant player in augmented reality (AR), and for good reason: The future of the company depends on it. AR includes any technology that uses digital information to seamlessly enhance the real world. Over…