Microsoft's new gizmo, the Kinect motion sensor, kinda freaks me out. The Xbox 360 attachment, in stores as of this morning, looks like a misshapen replacement head for Johnny 5 from Short Circuit, ...

A year ago, the Xbox One was more than just the wireless controller and giant black box that now sells for $399. At the time, it was important to Microsoft that every single one of the consoles it ...

PrimeSense — the company that built the Kinect's 3D sensor — has unveiled its latest sensor, which is nearly as small as a stick of chewing gum. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

REDMOND, WA—The schedule for today’s Xbox event on Microsoft’s Redmond campus included time for what was billed as a half-hour “interactive experience.” That experience unfortunately did not include a ...

Microsoft’s Kinect sensor for the Xbox One is a controversial piece of technology. Having proved that people were looking for a way to interact with their console with their voice. The Kinect 2 sensor ...

For all the buzz about the new Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One, there are remarkably few facts to go around. Sources trumpet its infrared-enabled ability to detect motion in a dark room, for ...

Microsoft has killed off the Kinect seven years after the company first introduced the Xbox accessory that paved the way for 3D-tracking and virtual-assistant technologies that will soon be ubiquitous ...

Earlier this week I traveled to Microsoft’s Mountain View campus to play with the company’s new Kinect sensor. While there I met with a few of the team’s engineers to discuss how they had built the ...

Microsoft stopped producing the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor today after phasing out the original sensor not long ago. The company emphasized, however, that this does not mean it will stop supporting ...

Microsoft is inching closer to delivering the second version of its Kinect for Windows sensor, and is showing off what the final hardware will look like. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the ...

What is Azure Kinect DK? While the Kinect brand is best associated with a motion-sensing device for gaming, those days are behind it: Kinect is all about business now. The latest model is called the ...