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 ...

Thought you'd heard the last of the Kinect name? Nope. During Build 2018, Microsoft announced its upcoming Project Kinect, a new depth sensor to be utilized with HoloLens and Azure AI. While details ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kinect didn't die, it just changed forms. Today at its annual Build developers conference, Microsoft announced Project Kinect for Azure saying that the sensor array will have all the capabilities ...

What is Azure Kinect DK? While the Kinect brand is best associated with a motion-sensing device for gaming, those days are behind it: Kinect is all about business now. The latest model is called the ...

is a senior correspondent 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 ...

While the Azure Kinect Developer Kit will no longer be made, the Kinect depth-sensing camera technology from Microsoft will continue to be used by third parties for their own devices. Microsoft ...

For all the buzz about the new Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One, there are remarkably few facts to go around. Sources trumpet its infrared-enabled ability to detect motion in a dark room, for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...