Just after Microsoft announced a Windows software development kit for its hit Kinect motion controller today, a former "core" member of the device's development team said the idea for a bounty contest ...

Microsoft's Azure Kinect developer kit is now generally available. The kit is built upon the remains of the Xbox's Kinect sensor, but built and improved specifically for businesses. The Azure Kinect ...

Microsoft is starting to accept applications for a chance to buy the new Kinect for Windows development kit. If accepted, those developers will get the chance to get a head start on developing, using ...

Who was there: Rare's Nick Burton is the British studio's Kinect development director. Since checking out hardware prototypes two years ago, he has been hard at work on the upcoming Kinect Sports.

It was only a matter of time before Microsoft lay the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor to rest. They released a Kinect Adaptor for Windows last fall which allows users to use an Xbox One Kinect sensor on ...

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 ...

The Kinect, the camera and microphone array once considered by Microsoft to be an incontrovertibly important piece of its new console, quickly fell out of the limelight once it stopped being sold with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft made the decision over a year ago to begin selling the Xbox One without the Kinect motion sensor, making it an optional accessory instead of a requirement for the console. In a new interview ...

Microsoft is often blamed for the once-legendary Nintendo developer Rare moving away from games like Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark and into Kinect development. But in an interview with Eurogamer, ...

One of the more curious game's to be shown at last year's E3 was Ryse, Crytek's mature-themed, sword-wielding Kinect adventure being published by Microsoft exclusively for the Xbox 360. It flashed by ...