This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the ...

The Xbox One will feature, by default, an always-on, works-in-the-dark, microphone and camera that's constantly connected to the internet and 300,000 servers. What could possibly go wrong? Share on ...

Earlier this year, at MWC, Microsoft announced the return of its Kinect sensor in the form of an AI developer kit. The $399 Azure Kinect DK camera system includes a 1MP depth camera, 360-degree ...

Xbox 360 is finally in motion. Thanks to Kinect, Microsoft’s game console joins PlayStation 3 and Wii in motion-controlled gaming. Kinect uses a combination of cameras and a mic to convert your ...

Wha? Even before a Hololens sequel could grace Microsoft's stage at MWC, the company has revived the Kinect, but in a buttoned-downed business sense. Nearly a decade since the Kinect first launched, ...

Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop's built-in speaker & microphone Microsoft Research, working with the University of Washington, has developed a Kinect-like system that uses your ...

At its event at Mobile World Congress today, Microsoft announced HoloLens 2, but alongside that is Azure Kinect. Originally called Project Kinect for Azure, which was announced at Build last year, you ...

Want to plug Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect camera directly into your Windows 7 PC? Now you can: Microsoft’s made the Kinect for Windows SDK beta available for download, gratis, and you can get it ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could ...