When Microsoft released its Kinect Software Development Kit (SDK) to developers to fuel innovation on the Kinect platform, the possibilities were palpable. Projects like Open Kinect have made real ...

Makes it possible to fit a 3D mesh to users’ faces and track their facial features and head position in real time using components from the Developer Toolkit. In addition, newly added joint ...

Microsoft released a new software development kit for its Kinect for Windows sensor today, expanding the capabilities of the platform for software developers building new Kinect apps for Windows PCs.

Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 SDK will include a new Kinect Studio app, seated skeletal tracking, and four new speech recognition languages. Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 SDK will include a ...

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Eyeballs are often watching us, but they’re usually embedded in the skull of another human or animal. When they’re staring at you by themselves, they can be altogether more creepy. This Halloween ...

It's now more than a year since Microsoft's Kinect motion controller hit the stores, bringing a new era of motion controls to the games console. While the first 12 months has been dominated by family ...

Hackers–and Internet culture in general–have had Kinect fever for a year now, and if rumors are to believed, things are only going to get better with the Kinect 2. According to Eurogamer, the next ...

Microsoft Research has unveiled a number of new projects they have been working on this month including the Microsoft FlexSense transparent next generation Smart Cover and the Microsoft RoomAlive ...

An upcoming Xbox 360 dashboard update will add support for Joule, a new wireless heart rate monitor which will track your exercise across most Kinect games. The new service, dubbed Kinect Play Fit, ...