There was next-to-no news during Microsoft's final keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 9 until the absolute end of CEO Steve Ballmer's hour-plus address. The one tidbit: The Kinect for ...

Oregon State University student Alex Wiggins gestures to Kinect, which in turn makes a remote-control toy helicopter take off while teammates Ruma Paul (left) and Fabio Matsui (right) look on. The ...

Microsoft has been vocal about its plans to foster development of Kinect software for the PC, but the console maker is planning to adapt its motion-sensing hardware to the platform as well. In a post ...

SAN DIEGO -- There's no way around it: Banking sucks. And if you're broke like me, opening up your browser to your online banking site only to continually find a zero balance sucks even more. Aside ...

The Xbox Kinect is Microsoft's big push into motion-controlled gaming. You don't even need a controller to play. Just move your hands and feet with gestures that the Kinect understands, and -- voilà! ...

Microsoft released on October 8 an updated version of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) that includes support for Desktop applications running on Windows 8. Company officials said ...

Robust Skeletal Tracking for high-performance capabilities that track the skeleton image of one or two persons moving within the Kinect field of view Advanced Audio Capabilities, including ...

Voice control isn't the only thing Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Kinect have in common. In both cases, developers have taken it upon themselves to use the software in ways the makers did not intend.

The U.S. has made many strides over the past century toward treating people with equality regardless of the color of their skin, but it seems that technology, surprisingly, has moved at a slower pace.

It turns out that yesterday's report was true, as today Microsoft released the beta version of its Kinect for Windows software development kit. While certainly not the first development software ...

Working with Microsoft, a company called Ubi Interactive is bringing us ever-closer to the day when everything is a touch screen. The software from Ubi (no relation to the game publisher Ubisoft) ...

Allowing computers to understand and translate sign language has long been a goal of developers aiming to empower deaf or hard of hearing people. Microsoft's Kinect depth-sensing camera has allowed ...