Microsoft might’ve stripped the Kinect out of the Xbox One recently, but that doesn’t make the hardware itself any less impressive—it’s just not the best device for a low-cost gaming console at the ...

The Kinect offers speech and audio capabilities, and can see objects as close as 40 centimeters in front of the sensor. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Microsoft has launched Kinect for Windows PCs, ...

The new Kinect, the second generation of Microsoft's motion capture camera technology, has been making healthcare headlines for nearly a year now as a few select companies were able to tinker with ...

Microsoft has made it official: The new-and-improved Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One later this year will also come to Windows in 2014. The Windows version will offer the same improvements ...

Says Franklin: “When Microsoft released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta last year, I tried to write an app to recognize a simple gesture. It was way too complex. The SDK spits out a stream of joint ...

Now that Kinect hardware is available for Windows, app developers can get busy bringing voice and motion control to desktop PCs. Microsoft is already working on Kinect Windows apps with hundreds of ...

Microsoft today announced it has started delivering Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview kits to developers who signed up for the $399 program. The Developer Preview includes a pre-release Kinect ...

Microsoft's Kinect for Windows sensor and development kit are coming to China and a handful of other new markets this fall. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a ...

Microsoft has revealed plans to phase out the original Kinect sensor for Windows-based PCs in 2015. The original Kinect for Windows first released in February of 2012, but has since became obsolete ...