Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming peripheral, but recognizing that a depth sensor is too cool to leave for dead, development continued even after Xbox gaming peripherals were ...

Thought you'd heard the last of the Kinect name? Nope. During Build 2018, Microsoft announced its upcoming Project Kinect, a new depth sensor to be utilized with HoloLens and Azure AI. While details ...

Wha? Even before a Hololens sequel could grace Microsoft's stage at MWC, the company has revived the Kinect, but in a buttoned-downed business sense. Nearly a decade since the Kinect first launched, ...

For all the buzz about the new Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One, there are remarkably few facts to go around. Sources trumpet its infrared-enabled ability to detect motion in a dark room, for ...

The Kinect sensor is probably never coming back as a gaming device, but Microsoft has been continuing to work on the the platform’s underlying technology, and the company is now taking it to new ...

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 ...

Get ready for more motion sensor controlled gaming. PrimeSense, the Israeli company that created the depth sensor for Microsoft’s Kinect, announced today that they will be bringing that technology to ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mixel ®, a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) announced today that Mixel’s MIPI ® IP has been successfully integrated into the Microsoft ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could ...

Microsoft's reboot of Kinect may be giving drones smarter vision and bringing AI to edge computing, but it'll also be at the heart of the next-generation HoloLens 2. Unveiled during Build 2018 this ...

At Build this year, Satya Nadella promised it would be "the most powerful sensor with the least amount of noise", and with an ultra-wide field of view. It's small enough and low-power enough to use in ...