Microsoft can’t hope to mount Kinect sensors at the top of every notebook PC, so it may adopt a different approach: Using the webcams that are already built into most PCs and tablets. Michael Mott, ...

One of Nex’s biggest marketing points is that it’s already attracted huge kid brands to the platform: Bluey, Peppa Pig, Gabby ...

Peripheral maker PDP will release a Kinect TV Mount peripheral for the Xbox One that features a "privacy cover" allowing users to block the camera's RGB and IR cameras. The $20 peripheral was revealed ...

With help from creative studio SuperUber, Microsoft sought to create a more portable, plug-and-play-type setup for Wonderland that would allow her to carry her stage show to venues of all sizes as ...

Another week, another hacked Kinect story. At this rate you’d think Microsoft actually intended the device for homebrew. It’s like watching America’s Got Talent for geeks. Or voyeurs. The latest ...

Could your Xbox Kinect camera be spying on you? According to secret documents provided by Edward Snowden to The Guardian, as part of Britain's "Optic Nerve" program, the country's top intelligence ...

Microsoft recently announced the discontinuation of Kinect for Xbox One, the camera that was synonymous with the console at the start of the generation. But just because the peripheral is no longer ...

In 2013, Microsoft chose to price the Xbox One at $500, a full $100 more than its main competitor, the PlayStation 4. The price difference was due to the inclusion of the Kinect camera, a sensor ...

Microsoft is no longer manufacturing Kinect cameras, according to a press account today, citing Microsoft officials. Kinect cameras were originally Xbox 360 gaming console accessory devices, but they ...

Microsoft lopped off the Kinect from its Xbox One in May to help the system sell better, but it’s not getting rid of the motion-tracking camera peripheral. The company announced today that a ...

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 ...