Microsoft has created a unique experience with its Kinect motion-control gaming system. On its face, it’s more compelling than either the Nintendo Wii, which is now showing its age, and the Sony ...

Microsoft engineers spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about how they built the Kinect motion sensing system, offering a rare glimpse inside the secret world of product design. After being ...

There are a lot of futuristic things we're still waiting on: jet packs for the entire family, self-driving cars and time-travel, to name a few. But one new, pretty darn amazing bit of technology has ...

Microsoft's Xbox Kinect system brings real people into virtual worlds — scanning people jumping around their living room, for example, to animate characters playing volleyball on a virtual beach. Now, ...

The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking ...

A security system built on Microsoft's Kinect software is currently monitoring the demilitarized zone between the North and South Korean borders, reports Hankooki. The system, developed by self-taught ...

When and if we ever do get our personal robot assistants, it would be nice to think that we could "be ourselves" in front of them, doing things such as scratching our butts or checking our deodorant - ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With an eye towards astronauts, researchers have created a system that uses the Microsoft Kinect to measure a ...

Have you ever wished that your computer could answer questions like “What did he mean when he said that?” or “Should I go to that party?” Well, while that may never happen, it could conceivably ...

Kinect is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years, at least since Microsoft de-bundled the motion-tracking system from the Xbox One in 2014, knocking $100 off the price tag and making the ...

University of California, San Diego students will be going to Jordan soon to take part in an archaeological dig that’s decidely futuristic: As they uncover artifacts and structures in the soil, ...

There are a lot of futuristic things we're still waiting on: jet packs for the entire family, self-driving cars and time-travel, to name a few. But one new, pretty darn amazing bit of technology has ...