Virtual Reality Games, Digital Signs & Swedish Apartments Get a Boost with Microsoft AI & Machine Learning

Human Interact is a VR storytelling startup based in Champaign, Illinois, and Starship Commander is one their newest VR games. One of the goals for Alexander Mejia and Adam Nydahl, the storytellers behind Starship Commander, was to use the easiest controller of them all – the human voice. However, the world they were crafting was full of fictional names and phrases which most existing cloud based solutions failed to understand. So they were on the lookout for a more accurate speech recognition platform. That's when Mejia and Nydahl became aware of Microsoft's Cognitive Services, offering developers Artificial Intelligence technologies spanning vision, speech, language, and knowledge, all accessible with just a few lines of code.