Just after Microsoft announced a Windows software development kit for its hit Kinect motion controller today, a former "core" member of the device's development team said the idea for a bounty contest ...

Microsoft’s march toward a voice- and gesture-controlled Windows experience just picked up momentum. On Wednesday the company reiterated that a final version of its Kinect for Windows sensor would be ...

Microsoft's Azure Kinect developer kit is now generally available. The kit is built upon the remains of the Xbox's Kinect sensor, but built and improved specifically for businesses. The Azure Kinect ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could ...

Says Franklin: “When Microsoft released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta last year, I tried to write an app to recognize a simple gesture. It was way too complex. The SDK spits out a stream of joint ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing camera for its Xbox consoles was walking dead for the longest time. Last October, it finally passed away peacefully — or so we thought. At its Build developer ...

Microsoft Corp made available Thursday a Windows 7-compatible test version of the software behind its hit Kinect motion-sensing game device, in the hope that developers will invent a host of ...

Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming peripheral, but recognizing that a depth sensor is too cool to leave for dead, development continued even after Xbox gaming peripherals were ...

Aki Kanerva and Ilkka Kalliomäki aren't just any indie game developers. The Finnish duo is dedicated to motion gaming and, as studio Virtual Air Guitar, one of the few companies still making Kinect ...

During a Reddit AMA (ask me anything), an alleged Microsoft developer that worked on the Xbox One stated that the while, yes, the success of the console is important, the market acceptance of the ...

Microsoft has removed many of its partnered development houses from the official Microsoft Studios website, suggesting that the company has more closures in mind following its recent shuttering of ...

The Xbox Kinect peripheral, a pretty infamous flop as far as video game accessories go, is no longer supported, but it turns ...