Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. To mark the one-year anniversary of the Kinect launch, Microsoft is releasing version 2 of the Kinect for Windows ...

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 Evoluce SDK for Kinect and Windows 7 is now available and enables developers to create noncommercial applications with a natural user experience. The SDK uses depth sensing information like human ...

Xbox Kinect made a huge splash when it launched, but the hype quickly died away. Despite that, it's still going strong - just ...

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We've been waiting for confirmation on yesterday's rumor, about Microsoft's motion-sensing Xbox 360 peripheral coming to PCs, and now we have it. MS has just now released a software development kit ...

When Windows developers get their hands on the code for the motion-sensing system, we could see gesture touch everything from Office applications to computer monitors. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer ...

Now that Kinect for Windows 2.0 devices have shipped, a preview of the software development kit is available for more than game developers. The Kinect for Windows team released a preview of its Kinect ...

The Kinect software development kit (SDK) beta was released by Microsoft today, enabling developers to create Visual Basic, Windows 7 C#,and C++ applications that recognize user input through the Xbox ...

While the Kinect was originally set to be a living room rival to the Wii, the hacker community took advantage of the relatively inexpensive motion sensor to deliver interesting results. Microsoft ...

Microsoft has yet to provide an exact launch date, but it will allow companies to use Kinect for commercial purposes starting sometime in early 2012. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

Microsoft has announced the release of the first beta version of the Kinect SDK (Software Development Kit). This SDK allows developers (or at least hobbyists and academics (the tools to create and ...