Microsoft might’ve stripped the Kinect out of the Xbox One recently, but that doesn’t make the hardware itself any less impressive—it’s just not the best device for a low-cost gaming console at the ...

Say what you will about Steve Ballmer’s swan song CES 2012 keynote (and the ridiculous, mostly made-up hype preceding it), at least we got a launch date and price for Kinect for Windows. It’s about ...

Microsoft on Feb. 1 will roll out Kinect for Windows as it tries to leverage Xbox’s best feature and natural user interface for broader use. In a blog post, Microsoft outlined how it plans on turning ...

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Microsoft will discontinue the original Kinect for Windows sensor this year, the company has announced. Microsoft is phasing out the original Kinect for Windows after it launched Kinect for Windows v2 ...

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 ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s second Kinect for Windows sensor is arriving on July 15th for $199, ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will bring out new hardware for Windows users to embrace its motion-based control platform Kinect. Great news? Perhaps not. Redmond confirmed in a blog post this week ...

Microsoft on Feb. 1 will roll out Kinect for Windows as it tries to leverage Xbox's best feature and natural user interface for broader use. In a blog post, Microsoft outlined how it plans on using ...

Ballmer just said it live on stage at CES. Yelling it, no less. Short and sweet. Kinect for Windows will be official on February 1st. Ballmer just said it live on stage at CES. Yelling it, no less.

Microsoft's Kinect gaming peripheral will be coming to the Windows operating system in Feburary. The company says is has sold 18 million units of the motion sensor. Roger Cheng Former Executive Editor ...

From the moment Kinect was announced at E3 years ago, it was clear that Microsoft had crafted something rather significant. The ability of a device to read both gestures and speech seemed like ...