Product Manager Lead at Xbox. Former Mixed Reality, HoloLens & VR software engineer at Microsoft. Indie Game Developer. Unity. C#. Bots. Speech.
HoloBot. HoloBot is a reusable 3D interface that allows HoloLens & VR users to interact with any bot using Mixed Reality & Speech.
124Unity-Text-to-Speech. Sample app used to demonstrate the use of Microsoft Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech APIs (aka Speech Synthesis) from within Unity.
101Unity-MS-SpeechSDK. Sample Unity project used to demonstrate Speech Recognition using the new Microsoft Speech Service (Preview) via WebSockets.
65Unity-SpeechWithLUIS. Sample Unity project used to demonstrate the integration of Speech Recognition and Language Understanding using the new Microsoft Speech Service (Preview) and LUIS from Microsoft Cognitive Services.
30AzureChatrforWindows. Windows Clients for a Cloud-based Cross-Platform Chat App for Windows Phone and Windows Tablets, Laptops and Desktops. Written in C# as a native Universal app using Visual Studio.
20TheMakerShowBot. This bot helps you get started as a maker by recommending online resources about project ideas, where to buy hardware boards, sensors and other parts, and more. This bot also recommends specific episodes of The Maker Show to watch based on your interests.
18MyWeather. Cross-Platform Mobile Weather App for iOS, Android, Windows 10 (UWP) and WP8 built in C# with Xamarin. Uses Xamarin.Forms to share 100% of XAML UI code.
15AzureChatrforAndroid. Android Client for a Cloud-based Cross-Platform Chat App for Smartphones and Tablets. Written in Java as a native app using Eclipse.
14Whiteboxing-UnityMLAgents. Experimental testbed where I test various Machine Learning & AI concepts using Unity ML Agents.
11Planetarium. A sample HoloLens app that uses spatial mapping to automatically place holograms within a room. This sample uses the HoloToolkit for Unity.
9WeatherTalk. Windows 10 / UWP sample weather app for phones, tablets, desktops, IoT devices, Xbox & HoloLens
8AzureChatrforiOS. iOS Client for a Cloud-based Cross-Platform Chat App for iPhone and iPad. Written in Objective-C as a native app using Xcode.
7AzureStorageDemoUnity3D. Sample Unity project used to demonstrate the use of Azure Storage services in games and Mixed Reality projects.
7BingTranslateDemo. Mobile Cross-Platform Translator Demo powered by Bing. Contains 3 solutions: a PCL solution for the Bing Tranlator API wrapper, a Xamarin.Forms solution for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 Silverlight, and a Universal Windows (WinRT) app for Windows Store 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1.
6BotFrameworkTestClient. Sample UWP project in C# for Windows 10 to test Direct Line calls to communicate with any bot created with the Microsoft Bot Framework.
5HoloModelShowcase. Mixed Reality demo project for HoloLens used to showcase a new product in 3D.
5MSSpeechServiceWebSocketConsole. Sample applications (.NET console & UWP app) used to test Speech Recognition in the Microsoft Speech SDK using WebSockets.
5CognitiveServices-Demo-Face. Demo of Microsoft Cognitive Services using the Face API, built in C# for Windows 10 / UWP.
4DesertShooterVR. Sample first-person-style game for virtual & mixed reality, optimized for Microsoft HoloLens
4Xamarin-Layouts. Sample Xamarin solution to experiment with Xamarin.Forms layouts.
4SpeechAmbiance10. Universal Windows Platform (UWP) project that demonstrates development using Speech Synthesis (aka Text-to-Speech) using SSML on Windows 10 in C#.
4MotionMatch. Motion Matching application using Microsoft Band, UWP, Azure IoT and Machine Learning
4HoloExplorer-Mars. Mars exploration simulation for Windows Mixed Reality and HoloLens. Work in progress, stay tuned.
3NodeChatBot. Basic ChatBot samples for the Microsoft Bot Framework, built with Node.js
3HelloWeather. Mobile Weather Demo for Windows Phone 8.1
3LearningUnity. Simple 3D pickup game used to teach the basics of the Unity Game Engine step-by-step.
2UnityStudy-360VideoSkybox. Windows Mixed Reality demo project for immersive VR headsets used to showcase 360 degrees video as the Skybox background
2UnityLearningMecanim. Unity 5 playground to test humanoid animations with Mecanim.
2MyWeatherNUI. Cross-Platform Mobile Weather App for iOS, Android and Windows 10 built in C# with Xamarin. Uses a custom UI for each platform.
2ImmersiveMRTest. Testing playground for Immersive Mixed reality experiences using MRTK
2Windows10-IoT-Core-Demos. Various demos for learning maker & IoT projects on Windows 10 IoT Core using UWP & C#, Arduino, etc.
2WeatherExperience. Simple demo app used to test the integration of UWP libraries as Unity plugins
2HelloHolograms. A variation of the Holograms 100 tutorial from the Holographic Academy. This one uses the HoloToolkit for Unity.
2Holo-Roll-a-Ball. Holo-Roll-a-Ball is a HoloLens version of the starter tutorial for Unity with adapted features. This is a work in progress.
1AzStorageDataMovementTest. Sample app using the Azure Storage Data Movement library used as a test bed before moving UWP code to Unity.
1GearWPClient. From my archives, an experimental shell app written in C# & Xamarin.Android for the original Samsung Gear smartwatch (rooted) to give it the look & feel of a Windows device.
1CustomAudiobooks. Universal Windows project in XAML & C# that lets the user listen to classic books using speech synthesis and background audio.
1SpeechRecoConsole. Console-based sample application used to test the Microsoft Speech SDK.
1SpeechAmbiance. Universal Windows 8.1 project that demonstrates Speech Synthesis using SSML.
1SpeechRecognitionAndTTSQuickstart. Windows Phone 8.1 Speech SDK Sample from MSDN - Reposted here as a convenience for viewers of the Cortana MVA. See the original sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Speech-Recognition-And-TTS-483fe645.
1Whiteboxing-UnityVR. Experimental testbed where I explore various VR concepts using Windows Mixed Reality in Unity.
1MR_LUIS. Lab sample that demonstrates the use of the Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) from Microsoft Cognitive Services in Unity & Mixed Reality projects.
1HoloBattlezone. Windows Holographic version of the Tanks tutorial from Unite Boston 2015.
1UnityStudy-Navigation. Sample Unity project used to experiment with navigation techniques
1VR-Demo-ALPS. Basic mobile Virtual Reality demo for Android, iOS & Windows Phone using the ALPS-VR SDK, used in my talks on Virtual & Mixed Reality.
1AboutPageStarterKit. Basic framework for a better About page in Windows Mobile apps, including App Studio. This is a work in progress, to be continued with Windows 10 UWP.
1VideoIndexerApp. SDK Library for C# used to interact with the Azure Media Services Video Indexer API. Includes sample UWP GUI client and .NET Core command line utility.
1Twitchboard. Social connection dashboard app for Windows 10 centered around Twitter.
1TalkingAdventures. From my archives, this is an adaptation of Frotz.NET for Windows Phone by Szurgot Development to support hands-free & eyes-free gameplay using Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition.
1QuickWeb. A sample repository for web demos connected to http://activenick.azurewebsites.net.
1VR-Demo-VISR. Basic mobile Virtual Reality demo for Windows 10 UWP, Android & iOS using the VISR-VR SDK, used in my talks on Virtual & Mixed Reality
1VoiceDirectionsWP81. Windows Phone 8.1 demo app that uses custom speech recognition with SRGS grammars to mimick the old text adventure games of the 1980's.
1Shotshotshots. SHOTSHOTSHOTS is an "Automated Buzzword Bingo Drinking Game" hardware & software hack powered by Windows 10, Particle Photon, booze and Cortana!
1UnityStudy-NavMesh. Sample Unity project used to experiment with navmeshes, computer AI and pathfinding
1CognitiveServices-Demo-EntityLinking. Windows 10 demo (UWP) for the Microsoft Entity Linking Intelligence Service, part of Cognitive Services.
1SpeechRecoAnimalsWP81. Windows Phone 8.1 (WinRT) XAML & C# demo project that demonstrates Speech recognition using programmatic lists (i.e. phrase list grammar).
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