Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming peripheral, but recognizing that a depth sensor is too cool to leave for dead, development continued even after Xbox gaming peripherals were ...

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, ...

Kinect's legacy lives on. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kinect, as it existed for Xbox, may be dead, but its legacy continues ...

Microsoft announced its Azure Kinect camera modules alongside HoloLens 2 early in 2019. Both devices use the same mixed-reality camera module, using a time-of-flight depth sensor to map objects around ...

Microsoft has begun shipping the second version of its Kinect gesture and voice recognition system to Windows developers. The Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview kits are now being sent to those ...

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 ...

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Microsoft's new gizmo, the Kinect motion sensor, kinda freaks me out. The Xbox 360 attachment, in stores as of this morning, looks like a misshapen replacement head for Johnny 5 from Short Circuit, ...

It’s sometimes useful for a system to not just have a flat 2D camera view of things, but to have an understanding of the depth of a scene. Dual RGB cameras can be used to sense depth by contrasting ...

Microsoft is making its Kinect for Windows v2 sensor available for preorder as of June 5. The sensor costs $199 and is orderable through Microsoft Stores. (A price list for other countries is here.) ...

Get ready for more motion sensor controlled gaming. PrimeSense, the Israeli company that created the depth sensor for Microsoft’s Kinect, announced today that they will be bringing that technology to ...

Since its debut a few short weeks ago, Microsoft Corp.’s new Xbox One gaming console has jumped off store shelves at the rate of more than 100,000 per day. The pace of adoption has led to shortages in ...