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’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 ...

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 ...

The Xbox Kinect peripheral, a pretty infamous flop as far as video game accessories go, is no longer supported, but it turns ...

While HoloLens 2 is undoubtedly the aspirational star of Microsoft’s augmented-reality (AR) offerings, the company isn’t putting all its eggs in that particular basket. Alongside the new HoloLens ...

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 ...

It was never the gaming revolution Microsoft thought it’d be, but Kinect found some utility in the business world Microsoft Xbox It finally happened. Microsoft has fully ended production of Kinect ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

Born and raised in Germany, Jennifer fell in love with video games at an early age when playing Pac-Man at a friend's house. After graduating from university with a degree in computer science, she ...

Microsoft has revealed that the seated Kinect technology used in Lionhead's Fable: The Journey will be standard in the Kinect development kit from now on. Previous Kinect games have forced players to ...

Microsoft has ended production of Azure Kinect, the successor to the Xbox peripheral, drawing a line under the motion-sensing camera's lifespan. As announced in a blog post, the company will stop ...