Microsoft has made big changes to improve the accuracy and potential applications of Kinect. In a talk at GDC Next titled “The Next Generation of Kinect,” Microsoft senior program manager Ben Lower ...

The second iteration of Kinect for Windows revealed by Microsoft this week features a few changes. While it looks nearly identical to the motion-sensitive camera for Xbox One, its glowing Xbox logo ...

Microsoft announced the successor to the popular Kinect motion-sensing game accessory at Tuesday's Xbox One event. The updated device works in a totally different way from before, but it's far better ...

With the one year anniversary of Kinect right around the corner (stay tuned for our Kinect retrospective) we decided to honor the occasion by sharing with you the ten best games that have graced ...

No, the device you see in the image above this post is not the unbundled Xbox One Kinect we’ve been requesting, but rather the second version of the Kinect for Windows hardware due out later this year ...

Microsoft made the Kinect for Windows SDK beta available for download earlier this year, enabling programmers to create applications for PCs utilizing motion-sensing technology. Although that release ...

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 ...

The Xbox One Kinect sensor is coming to Windows, with a few minor tweaks. Microsoft has “finally” finalized the next version of Kinect for Windows. Dubbed “Kinect for Windows v2,” the new sensor seems ...

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 ...

At its MIX11 conference, Microsoft Research announced that the Kinect for Windows SDK beta is coming this spring. Developers can sign up to be notified of the release ...

Microsoft discontinued the Kinect today, ending the motion-sensing Xbox peripheral's lifespan after seven long years of gaming mediocrity and wasted potential. Although the Kinect wasn't exactly a ...

There is a wave of concern—completely justified, to my mind—over the privacy implications of our increasing reliance on Facebook and Google. What most people don’t realize, however, is that these ...