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 ...

It’s been ten years since Microsoft launched the Kinect camera and it lived quite a life. The Xbox 360 peripheral became a key part of the whole Xbox platform and then years later, almost just as ...

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

Earlier this year, at MWC, Microsoft announced the return of its Kinect sensor in the form of an AI developer kit. The $399 Azure Kinect DK camera system includes a 1MP depth camera, 360-degree ...

For Microsoft, E3 2010 was an opportunity to name and reveal the final version of its take on motion controls. It's called Kinect (formerly Project Natal), and unlike the motion-control system from ...

Microsoft announced its Azure Kinect camera modules alongside HoloLens 2 early in 2019. Both devices use the same mixed-reality camera module, using a time-of-flight depth sensor to map objects around ...

Tim Main and Joe Dixon's lush music video for New Look's "Nap on the Bow" creates a rippling underwater world with Xbox's Kinect camera. The ghostly shapes are based on depth information from the ...

Microsoft lopped off the Kinect from its Xbox One in May to help the system sell better, but it’s not getting rid of the motion-tracking camera peripheral. The company announced today that a ...

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 ...

After a patent for a Sony Kinect-like camera for PlayStation that can detect depth was discovered earlier this week, we’ve uncovered yet another patent for such a device. The patent, which was only ...