Manufacturing of the Kinect has shut down. Originally created for the Xbox 360, Microsoft’s watershed depth camera and voice recognition microphone sold ~35 million units since its debut in 2010, but ...

Kinect Sports is a yardstick for measuring the potential for Microsoft's new motion tech. Sports collections are ideal introductions to motion control because of the wide variety of activity they ...

As sure as night follows day, and a greasy, carbohydrate-laden breakfast follows a drunken night out, so iFixit has followed the launch of Microsoft's new Kinect by tearing one apart and photographing ...

All the way back when Kinect was called Project Natal, Microsoft was saying it would promote the motion-sensing system's launch as though it were a new console. However, initial reports in the media ...

When Oliver Kreylos, a computer scientist, heard about the capabilities of Microsoft’s new Kinect gaming device, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on it. “I dropped everything, rode my bike to the ...

The Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect controller has done more than simply captivate millions—it’s captured the hearts and minds of thousands of homebrew hackers, the DIY community, and spurred a sudden ...

Is the Kinect the future of animation, or perhaps athletic training? The answers might be in Microsoft's Kinect Accelerator. To continue reading this content, please ...

Does Microsoft's new face- and motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, the Kinect, have problems recognizing dark-skinned faces? Testers at GameSpot say that it does. Specifically, they wrote, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Kinect, the motion-controlled sensor for Xbox 360, contains some startling technology for a $150 consumer gadget. It's like when GPS navigators ...

Ignore the doomsayers and those who miss their buttons, because it looks like the Kinect is already a success. Microsoft is trumpeting sales of over 2.5 million units of the hardware worldwide in the ...

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Just three hours after the European launch, Hector Martin has already hacked Microsoft’s new Kinect motion system and enabled it to run under Linux open-source drivers with support for RGB input as ...