GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Soon after the Kinect hit the market last November, academics and hobbyists began to experiment with it. Using open-source drivers on Windows-based ...

The Kinect device for the new Xbox One console is coming to PC and while this doesn’t come as much of a surprise to many of you, it’s still nice to get something official on the hardware and its ...

The NUI Group posted its Kinect motion controller hacking results first, and is now working on an SDK and Windows drivers to enable all the capabilities of the peripheral. That will all be released as ...

Microsoft’s march toward a voice- and gesture-controlled Windows experience just picked up momentum. On Wednesday the company reiterated that a final version of its Kinect for Windows sensor would be ...

Microsoft has developed a new version of Kinect aimed at Windows PC applications, which will include a new Near Mode for close "Building on the existing Kinect for Xbox 360 device, we have optimised ...

is a senior correspondent 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 ...

Looks like a couple of different folks have found a way for Kinect owners to use the device on their PC. First up is the NUI Group, which are apparently working on an open source SDK and Windows ...

Microsoft has revealed a next-generation version of Kinect for Windows-based PCs. Kinect for Windows v2 closely resembles its Xbox One counterpart, with the 'Kinect' branding added to the top panel ...

Who knew Kinect could work just as well snapped into a regular PC as an Xbox 360? Hector Martin, that’s who. Martin took up a challenge issued by Adafruit Industries to uncork Kinect’s mysterious ...

As outlandish as it sounds, the recently-released indie management strategy game Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator perfectly captures its premise and central gameplay loop in a five-word title.

Google is apparently working on yet another ‘crazy’ device, and this time it is attempting to incorporate 3D computer vision technology similar to Kinect into a smaller device, a smartphone. The ...