Microsoft Kinect

Microsoft hopes to push augmented reality and 3D printing into the mainstream with a major new release of the Kinect software development kit.

Why isn't Microsoft selling this Minority Report device to consumers yet? Today, Microsoft is releasing its biggest-yet update to its developer tools for Kinect for Windows, the PC-based version of the Kinect motion sensor. But over a year after the initial release, I’m curious why this add-on has...

SDK 1.7 brings 3D body scanning features and automatically recognised gestures

Not all that long ago, we were staring at spreadsheets, table layouts and sketch-ups, squinting our eyes and attempting to wrap our brains around all of it. On Friday, we popped by Fort Mason in San Francisco, to test drive ZBoard's latest and greatest electric skateboard, and things were already...

The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of its code under an Apache 2.0 license. [Read more]

German tech company 4tiitoo wants you to meet the NUIA eyeCharm, which transforms your Microsoft Kinect from a motion sensor to an eye motion sensor. The distinction means the difference between waving your arms to control your computer and simply moving your eyes. The project recently appeared for...

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. While there are countless eye-tracking devices in various stages of research , development and...

After I shelled out something like $200 for a Kinect bundle that I ended up shoving in a closet, the team at 4tiitoo may have finally given me a reason to dig the thing out. The Munich-based company recently kicked off a Kickstarter campaign to let Kinect owners control their PCs with little more...

Pool is a fun game, but with just some colored balls on a plain green field, the spectacle is a little lacking. We've already seen how some clever projection can turn anyone into a pool shark , but now OpenPool is taking it a step further by turning pool into a psychedelic rave of a game . More »

Kinect's potential for gaming might not have been thaaaat great, but its applications for other things, like cheating at pool and medicine, have been pretty impressive. The team at Microsoft Research Cambridge, for instance, have rigged one up to peek inside skulls and look at brains with...