Walt Disney is often talked about as the godfather of animation, but that honor truly belongs to two Frenchmen: Charles-Émile Reynaud projected the first animation onto a screen in 1877 and Émile Cohl ...

When Microsoft released its Kinect Software Development Kit (SDK) to developers to fuel innovation on the Kinect platform, the possibilities were palpable. Projects like Open Kinect have made real ...

The Kinect sensor promised us a higher level of immersion, with one-to-one control over the motion of our game character, a concept Microsoft dubbed ‘avateering’. In practice few titles provide this ...

Ubisoft's Frederic Blais is overseeing the company's Kinect output and like Blitz Games, they too are stepping aside from using the Microsoft libraries, but for other reasons. "The process is not so ...

Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 SDK will include a new Kinect Studio app, seated skeletal tracking, and four new speech recognition languages. Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 SDK will include a ...

Microsoft today released version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK, and made Kinect for Windows hardware available in four more countries. The updated release adds several capabilities ...

We’ve already seen one way Microsoft’s Kinect can be used to help bedroom game developers, but here’s another, just as practical way: it can allow for home ...

You’ve heard the rumors, and they’re true: Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect camera turns out to be hacktastic. Mouse pointers and picture shuffling? So 2010. Why not control robots with your arms?

Microsoft’s Kinect motion-tracking sensor for Windows and Xbox 360 can today, out of the box, keep track of basic body parts like your arms and legs. It’s not very good at keeping track of rapid ...