071 - Holograms, spatial anchors and the future of computer vision with Dr. Marc Pollefeys

Dr. Marc Pollefeys is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, a Partner Director of Science for Microsoft, and the Director of a new Microsoft Mixed Reality and AI lab in Switzerland. He’s a leader in the field of computer vision research, but it’s hard to pin down whether his work is really about the future of computer vision, or about a vision of future computers. Arguably, it’s both!

On today’s podcast, Dr. Pollefeys brings us up to speed on the latest in computer vision research, including his innovative work with Azure Spatial Anchors, tells us how devices like Kinect and HoloLens may have cut their teeth in gaming, but turned out to be game changers for both research and industrial applications, and explains how, while it’s still early days now, in the future, you’re much more likely to put your computer on your head than on your desk or your lap.