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 ...

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 ...

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 Corp made available on Thursday a Windows 7-compatible test version of the software behind its hit Kinect motion-sensing game device, in the hope that developers will invent a host of "hands ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft this morning announced the Kinect for Windows Software Developers Kit, a free beta release for non-commercial applications of the company's hands-free technology for Windows 7. The company ...

Anthony Taormina is an original member of the Game Rant team, having been part of the publication for 15 years. He coordinates content for all facets of the site and manages its social media, PR, and ...

Microsoft Corp made available Thursday a Windows 7-compatible test version of the software behind its hit Kinect motion-sensing game device, in the hope that developers will invent a host of ...

Microsoft released for download on February 1 the final bits for the first version of its Kinect for Windows software and began shipping the accompanying sensor hardware. The Kinect for Windows sensor ...

Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda feels it "will be hard" for another company to try and replicate a controller-free system like Kinect due to "super-complicated technical" hurdles. Speaking with Eurogamer, ...

When Joshua Blake tweeted to me on April 18 that Microsoft was planning to open source the coming Kinect software development kit (SDK), I sat up and took notice. Blake is the OpenKinect Community ...