Starting this spring, people who own an Xbox 360 and a Kinect sensor will be able to use avatars to talk to each other in a variety of virtual worlds, with their avatars not only mimicking their ...

Kinect has been a product that Microsoft has been betting on and hyping for about a year and a half now, ever since revealing Project Natal at E3 2009. The motion sensing gaming peripheral is finally ...

What exactly does the IR projector in your Kinect do? A few videos on YouTube shot in night vision mode shows you just how much invisible light the device throws out. Dots everywhere!

Starting this fall, Xbox Kinect owners won't just use the motion control device to slice virtual fruit or turn their living room into a dance floor. They will use it to answer questions during a ...

Jesus. We were joking when we said, "Go make some robots." Why do you have to be so literal? Short version: some MIT people took Kinect, strapped it to an iRobot Create along with a range-finding ...

Microsoft’s Kinect has been put to work in a Russian branch of clothing retailer Topshop–all in a bid to help customers “try on” clothes without the need to strip down in the fitting room. The virtual ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Microsoft says that Kinect is the next big thing for video games, a way to control both games and TV without touching a thing. This expensive future ...

Sick of going to the club to party it up and dance the night away? No longer do you have to leave your own home; now you can bring the party to you and pump it up with a Kinect hack laser show and ...

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Microsoft Kinect is certainly an innovative piece of hardware — albeit with a number of limitations. Like any motion control device, space and calibration can be a pain and, despite a few exceptions, ...