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 ...

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 ...

This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft marketing claims depth sensing by time of flight for IR light. That's bogus, as it would require a sub-nanosecond light source and image sensor. Neither are currently affordable for a ...

Mapping the insides of anything in real time is hard. Certainly harder than it looks in movies like The Dark Knight, where, near the end, a bat-suited Christian Bale dashes through a high-rise, taking ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

The enterprising patent watchdogs over at Neogaf have unearthed two previously-undiscovered Sony patents—one, a sensor similar to Kinect, and the other, an add-on for next-gen consoles that would ...