Starting this spring, people who own an Xbox 360 and a Kinect sensor will be able to use avatars to talk to each other in a variety of virtual worlds, with their avatars not only mimicking their ...

The Xbox Kinect peripheral, a pretty infamous flop as far as video game accessories go, is no longer supported, but it turns ...

Kinect has been a product that Microsoft has been betting on and hyping for about a year and a half now, ever since revealing Project Natal at E3 2009. The motion sensing gaming peripheral is finally ...

Jesus. We were joking when we said, "Go make some robots." Why do you have to be so literal? Short version: some MIT people took Kinect, strapped it to an iRobot Create along with a range-finding ...

Walking the floor at Microsoft’s conference center in Redmond, Wash., yesterday for the conclusion of the company's three-month Kinect Accelerator program for startups, it was remarkable to see not ...

Microsoft's Azure Kinect developer kit is now generally available. The kit is built upon the remains of the Xbox's Kinect sensor, but built and improved specifically for businesses. The Azure Kinect ...

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Microsoft says that Kinect is the next big thing for video games, a way to control both games and TV without touching a thing. This expensive future is now. It’s amazing, but you can wait for it. The ...

Microsoft Kinect is certainly an innovative piece of hardware — albeit with a number of limitations. Like any motion control device, space and calibration can be a pain and, despite a few exceptions, ...