Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to stop offering its Azure Kinect Developer Kit, although it will still license its depth-sensing camera technology to partners. The Azure Kinect ...

Microsoft has revealed plans to phase out the original Kinect sensor for Windows-based PCs in 2015. The original Kinect for Windows first released in February of 2012, but has since became obsolete ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor has revolutionary potential, but it’s pricey at $250 for the Windows version. Enter Leap, which plans to sell a more accurate motion-sensing device called the Leap ...

The first Kinect camera for the Xbox 360 and then Windows PCs, from Israeli company Primesense, now owned by Apple, is being phased out in favour of the Xbox One’s new Kinect camera. Microsoft’s ...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its 501(k) approval to Reflexion Health for its Vera system. What makes this so noteworthy is that the company is using Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft has ended production of Azure Kinect, the successor to the Xbox peripheral, drawing a line under the motion-sensing camera's lifespan. As announced in a blog post, the company will stop ...

Microsoft today released the final Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0, which you can download now for free directly from Microsoft.com. The launch means developers can now finalize their apps for the Kinect ...

"We can turn any surface into a 3D touchscreen," explained Anup Chathoth, one third of Munich-based startup Ubi Interactive. Such claims typically conjure up images of floating Minority Report-style ...

Xbox One Kinect will not be compatible with PCs, Microsoft has confirmed. Unlike the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor, which comes with a PC adaptor, the Xbox One sensor has been designed specifically for the ...

Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment. The drone ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Nex is developing something similar to Kinect: a body motion-control ...