(Phys.org) —Microsoft has announced at its Build Development Event and via its website a new initiative the company is calling the Kinect for Windows developer kit program. The idea is to entice ...

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Applications for software development kits for the next-generation Kinect for Windows are now open, Microsoft announced today. Developers looking to get their hands on the new Kinect early have until ...

Kinect has been used for controlling cars in fast action games and simulating actions in sports such as tennis and golf but it can also be used as another way of controlling your PC, just as you do ...

People may soon pay bills and manage their banking by waving their hands in front of their TVs, if an application from a Lithuanian company at this week’s CTIA conference proves successful. The ...

At the Lakeside Center for Autism in Issaquah, three 5-year-olds stand in front of a big screen displaying a river-rafting game. They laugh as they jump or wave their arms, making their on-screen ...

Microsoft on Friday announced a program designed to help ten developers or startups launch businesses around products for Kinect, the controller that senses motion and voice. Developers with Kinect ...

Microsoft on Thursday released a software development kit for its Kinect gaming system, and hackers are already testing the limits of what the device can do. After the release of the SDK, Microsoft ...

While Kinect has boosted sales of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming system, the new game controller is widely seen as having a broad range of potential applications in such areas as healthcare, education ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft have announced that they've released version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK. They've also announced that Kinect for Windows ...

Editor’s note: If you’d subscribed to my email newsletter, you could have been reading this column yesterday! In Microsoft’s vision of the future, Kinect sensors are everywhere: In your living room, ...

Microsoft has never been shy about its ambitions for Kinect's depth sensing abilities. A pair of patent applications, however, show that its hopes and dreams are taking a more Hollywood turn. One ...