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 ...

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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 ...

New Kinect is a PC accessory for developers Useful for developing speech and computer models No longer an Xbox compatible accessory Microsoft took to stage at Mobile World Congress to announce its ...

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, ...

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 ...

Andrew Blake is managing director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, the UK lab responsible for the machine learning software behind Kinect. New Scientist caught up with him at The Economist’s ...

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 ...

With a new Microsoft gadget called Kinect, computer users can now wave their hands around and issue voice commands and cause things to happen on the computer. Compatible with Windows 7, the Xbox and ...

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 ...

THE advent of multi-touch screens and novel gaming interfaces means the days of the traditional mouse and keyboard are well and truly numbered. With Humantenna and SoundWave, you won’t even have to ...