Over a million people bought one of Microsoft’s Kinect game controllers in the 10 days after its US launch on 4 November. Most eager customers rushed home, plugged it into their Xbox console and began ...

When Kinect launched in November 2010 the depth sensor was set at a 30 frames per second limit and a 320×240 resolution limit. The issue relates to the USB controller interface, which is capable of ...

Who knew Kinect could work just as well snapped into a regular PC as an Xbox 360? Hector Martin, that’s who. Martin took up a challenge issued by Adafruit Industries to uncork Kinect’s mysterious ...

The system will allow Windows users to control software with the wave of a hand, as envisaged in the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report. “Building on the existing Kinect for Xbox 360 device, we ...

Microsoft creates Kinect-like system using your laptop's built-in speaker & microphone Microsoft Research, working with the University of Washington, has developed a Kinect-like system that uses your ...

Shortly after Kinect’s launch, it was either hacked or “accessed in a way not facilitated by the designer,” depending on your definition of the term. Microsoft’s response was swift and disapproving, ...

If you’ve always wanted to control your computer with Tom Cruise-like Minority Report gestures, that day is one step closer. And the technology is 200 times more sensitive to motion than Xbox 360’s ...

Google is launching yet another crazy moonshot project. This one is a prototype called “Project Tango,” which squeezes 3D computer vision technology—similar to that used in the Xbox Kinect—into a ...

Seeking a way to crowdsource better computer vision, roboticists have launched a website that allows users to record pieces of their environments in 3-D with a Kinect camera. Called Kinect@Home, the ...