Kinect in focus: Xbox’s app chief talks Smart Homes & Cortana
When you have a product like Kinect, so closely associated with gaming, how do you convince everybody else that they should be installing a motion-tracking camera in the home? Microsoft … Continue reading
View ArticleKinect Sports Rivals Review
Kinect Sports Rivals takes Kinect seriously, in a way that no game for the Xbox One yet has. It’s absurd that the Xbox One’s Kinect hadn’t been utilized to the … Continue reading
View ArticleKinect Champion Scan: Xbox One’s first killer Kinect experience
In what we’re considering the first "wow" moment in Xbox One’s Kinect environment, Kinect Sports Rivals arrives this week to scan you in. In this game you, the user, are … Continue reading
View ArticleMicrosoft SurroundWeb reworks IllumiRoom for immersive web
Microsoft has given its IllumiRoom concept a makeover, with the immersive projected gaming experience evolving to deliver interactive web content that fills the living room and engages with Xbox One, …...
View ArticleXbox One without Kinect release set for June 9th
It would appear that Microsoft is preparing to take on the gaming market with the Xbox One without their motion-detecting Kinect. This is a bit of a surprise move, as … Continue reading
View ArticleXbox One didn’t just destroy Kinect
Today the Xbox One without Kinect has been announced, throwing massive numbers of gamers for a loop. Up until today, very few suspected that Microsoft would ever release their Xbox … Continue reading
View ArticleWhy Microsoft just killed the Kinect
It’s all over. Microsoft’s Kinect, which has improved greatly since its launch on the Xbox 360, is officially on a death march that won’t slow down. Microsoft announced recently that … Continue reading
View ArticleKinect Sports Rivals flops, Rare lays off workers
If you have a game that’s so extremely important to the future of your developer group that it’ll make or break said group, you might be Rare. This week it’s … Continue reading
View ArticleXbox One Screenshot feature coming soon
This week the folks responsible for upgrading the Xbox One’s features have let it be known that there will soon be a real-deal screenshot ability. Where "Xbox, Capture That" already … Continue reading
View ArticleXbox One 10% graphics boost incoming (by sacrificing Kinect)
The Xbox One is getting a graphics boost, though the potential 10-percent improvement will only affect the console when Kinect isn't plugged in, Microsoft has admitted. Xbox chief Phil Spencer …...
View ArticleRabbids Kinect interactive TV show summoned by Ubisoft
Rabbids Invasion is the name of the game, and the name of the genre is Interactive TV Show. What you’ll be doing in Rabbids Invasion is taking part in 20 … Continue reading
View ArticleKinect for Windows v2 hits preorder as Microsoft crows potential
Microsoft may be offering the Xbox One without Kinect for motion-uninterested gamers, but it's also counting on plenty of Windows users and developers being interested in the Kinect for Windows …...
View ArticleNew Windows Phone may have gesture control, like Kinect
Companies like Motorola and Microsoft want you to have smartphones, but don’t seem to want you to touch them. Motorola’s always-on listening mode gave us hands-free search, and a new … Continue reading
View ArticleFirst Xbox One Kinect opt-out games confirmed for graphics boost
The first Xbox One games to benefit from ditching Kinect have been named, with both Destiny and Sunset Overdrive committed to using the extra GPU grunt to hit 1080p/30fps. Microsoft … Continue reading
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Kinect for Windows v2 shipping July 15
Don't want to buy an Xbox One but want to use the second generation Kinect for your Windows PC? Look no further and wait no longer. Microsoft has just updated their pre-order page for Kinect for...
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Microsoft’s 3D Windows Phone flagship? It’s apparently dead
Microsoft has reportedly killed its upcoming flagship Windows Phone, a motion-tracking smartphone codenamed McLaren, with attempts to motivate developers to use its 3D Touch control system supposedly...
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The irony: Microsoft makes depth-tracking phone while ignoring Kinect
Microsoft may have conspicuously ignored Kinect in its Gamescon event today, going as far as to leave the motion sensor out of all three of its new Xbox One bundles, but that doesn't mean the rest of...
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Standalone Kinect for Xbox One priced for October 7th
The standalone Kinect sensor for Xbox One will hit stores on October 7th, Microsoft has confirmed, giving those gamers who initially opted for the console without the motion sensor bar to subsequently...
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Xbox 360 Holiday bundles include blue console
Microsoft has revealed its Xbox 360 holiday bundles. Starting next month, gamers will be able to get a deep blue special edition console from Walmart, which will be joined by a controller with the same...
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RoomAlive augments IllumiRoom: totally interactive rooms
While some, like Oculus and now Samsung, want to immerse you in virtual worlds by constraining your eyes to a single point and faking the world, others are taking immersion from the other end....
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Is Xbox One’s Kinect dead?
Earlier this year Microsoft revealed their response to the $100-cheaper PlayStation 4 in the form of an Xbox One without the Kinect. Previous to this reveal of the $399 Kinect-less Xbox One, there’d...
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Assassin’s Creed Unity bundles and Rogue Storyline trailer tapped
This morning we’re having a peek at several different angles on Assassin’s Creed Unity - product, storyline, and gameplay. While we got our Assassin’s Creed: Unity First-Impressions in on the 6th, one...
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Kinect Adapter for Windows makes Xbox One device a USB joint
The newest way Microsoft is making Kinect more accessible to the masses is with a device called the Kinect Adapter for Windows. This device allows the Xbox One Kinect to work with your Windows 8 or...
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Nimble Sense brings your hands into VR without gloves
The proliferation of virtual reality headsets, especially consumer-friendly ones, has given rise to the next logical interest in VR development: our hands. After all, the VR illusion is broken when you...
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Kinect v1 being phased out through 2015
Current Kinect hardware is being phased out as Microsoft rolls in something better. Via their Kinect blog, Microsoft is announcing they’ve decided to phase out the legacy Kinect version one in order to...
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Kinect for Windows is dead, long live Kinect for Xbox One
This news should probably come as a surprise to no one after Microsoft unveiled the Kinect Adapter for Windows last October. In a nutshell, this has made the Kinect for Windows somewhat redundant. So...
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Microsoft releases RoomAlive toolkit: go build your holodeck
Microsoft may have just wowed your imagination when it revealed more details about its HoloLens virtual augmented reality headset at BUILD 2015 last week, but there's one virtual dream you can already...
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Xbox One’s new Cortana feature will require a Kinect
Microsoft seems to be developing a habit of announcing big features related to Windows 10 but neglecting to mention the critical fine print that would impact if you're even eligible to get the feature....
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Raspberry Pi 2, Kinect make for a handy 3D scanner
Microsoft may have hit on a mixed jackpot with the Kinect. While Xbox gamers might consider it a very optional, sometimes even unwanted, accessory, makers and tinkerers have flocked to it for how it...
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Microsoft removes Kinect Gestures in latest Xbox One update
Since Microsoft started releasing Xbox One bundles without the Kinect, people have been wondering if the device is facing its death. It's definitely a valid concern, since the decision to exclude the...
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Researchers use Microsoft Kinect to take better X-rays
Next time your parents claim that nothing good would come from gaming, this little anecdote might tide things in your favor. Of course, it's gaming technology that's in focus here, but we're not going...
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Researchers use Kinect to increase 3D scanning accuracy by 1000x
It's hard to deny the fact that the Kinect has all but failed as a gaming device. Despite their initial decisions, Microsoft stopped including the device with all Xbox One bundles, which fractured the...
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This hairy “mirror” is both fascinating and unnerving
If you have issues with clumps of fur or hair that seemingly move on their own, now would be a good time to look away. Otherwise, proceed at your own risk and be mesmerized, or revolted, by this one of...
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MIT hacked a Xbox Kinect to create a reflection-free camera
When taking photos, whether it be of sights or people, sometimes shooting through a window is unavoidable, and that means there's probably going to be glare or reflections. Turns out, researchers at...
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Xbox One S requires a USB adapter to use a Kinect
At E3 2016, Microsoft revealed the new Xbox One S that represents an incremental step forward for the company's console line, at least while waiting for Project Scorpio to take flesh. If the One S is...
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Kinect Adapter for Xbox One S, Windows 10 now on pre-order
In just a month or so, Microsoft will be launching a new console. No, it's not the Project Scorpio, of course. Well, half a new console, probably. The Xbox One S is scheduled to go out to the public in...
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Kinect is dead
Microsoft’s Kinect is officially out of production – neither Kinect for Xbox nor Kinect for PC shall be made henceforth. For those consumers that’ve been waiting to pick up a Kinect – now’s the time....
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The Microsoft Kinect is now really dead
Actually, the Microsoft Kinect accessory “technically” died October 2017 when Microsoft declared that it would no longer be producing any new units. Of course, there were still some stocks on store...
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Project Kinect for Azure is Microsoft’s AI sensor gift to devs
Kinect is back, and it wants to make the Internet of Things smarter and less reliant on the cloud. Microsoft has taken the wraps off Project Kinect for Azure today at Build 2018, its annual developer...
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The HoloLens 2 secret sauce just got revealed
Microsoft’s reboot of Kinect may be giving drones smarter vision and bringing AI to edge computing, but it’ll also be at the heart of the next-generation HoloLens 2. Unveiled during Build 2018 this...
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