Microsoft really wants to see what startups can do with their motion-based Kinect camera. Selling 8 million in 60 days wasn't enough, and Microsoft sees the future of gaming (and technology) as a huge ...

In a conference center room on Microsoft’s Redmond campus Thursday, a slim, bespectacled CEO clad in a white lab coat was waving his arms wildly. Behind him, on a flat screen, a cartoon blackbird ...

The ability to extract and track the positions of the human body is a remarkable feature of the Kinect, but how do you use it? It seems more complicated than the more basic video and depth outputs.

A team of computer scientists has created a software program that watches a user's movements and gives spoken feedback on what to change to accurately complete a yoga pose. Researchers hope this will ...

[programing4fun] has been playing around with his Kinect-based 3D display and building a holographic WALL-E controllable with a Windows phone. It’s a ‘kid safe’ version of his Terminator personal ...

(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 ...

Getting beyond the basics with Kinect can be a matter of a lot of knowledge applied with imagination. This book might provide a shortcut. This book is specifically about the Windows SDK for the Kinect ...

Microsoft announced the Kinect Accelerator program today, a three-month incubation program to develop new Kinect-enabled Windows and Xbox 360 applications. The company is now accepting applications, ...

Some of the most exciting uses of Kinect for the Xbox 360 came from people who hooked it up to a Windows PC or other device for some innovative, natural user interface applications. Microsoft is ...