Researchers at the University of Minnesota are playing around with Microsoft's Kinect sensors as part of some important work: finding ways to diagnose autism earlier. In fact, the university was ...

Now that Kinect hardware is available for Windows, app developers can get busy bringing voice and motion control to desktop PCs. Microsoft is already working on Kinect Windows apps with hundreds of ...

When David Holz, CTO of Leap Motion, first told me not to focus too much on the company's hardware because the real magic was in the software, I only half believed him. After listening to Microsoft ...

Anyone remember Xbox Kinect? It was this strange-looking motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, and later Xbox One, which used a camera to track the gamer's movements. First unveiled at E3 2009 ...

The Kinect that ships with the Xbox One cannot be plugged into your PC. The old Kinect for the Xbox 360 could be plugged into a Windows PC if you did not want to use your Xbox. But it seems Redmond is ...

The Xbox One will feature, by default, an always-on, works-in-the-dark, microphone and camera that's constantly connected to the internet and 300,000 servers. What could possibly go wrong? Share on ...

Plenty of digital ink has already been spilled about how Microsoft's impressive new motion-sensing camera performs as a game controller — or as a controller without the controller, as it were — but ...