The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...

Anyone remember Xbox Kinect? It was this strange-looking motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, and later Xbox One, which used a camera to track the gamer's movements. First unveiled at E3 2009 ...

Move + grip pressing. Move + lift clicking. I personlly don't think these control functions are intuitive or good-looking gestures. But they kind of solve cursor jittering when doing a grip gesture, ...

Kinect occupies a strange place in the tech world. It’s a nearly universally beloved piece of technology that was both ahead of its time and very much of its time, all at once. It felt — for a moment ...

It was never the gaming revolution Microsoft thought it’d be, but Kinect found some utility in the business world Microsoft Xbox It finally happened. Microsoft has fully ended production of Kinect ...

Microsoft has ended production of Azure Kinect, the successor to the Xbox peripheral, drawing a line under the motion-sensing camera's lifespan. As announced in a blog post, the company will stop ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to stop offering its Azure Kinect Developer Kit, although it will still license its depth-sensing camera technology to partners. The Azure Kinect ...

The wireless mouse comes in three types, Bluetooth, Radiofrequency (2.4GHZ), and Infrared. The two most common ones that we use today are Bluetooth and Radiofrequency (2.4GHZ). Wireless mouse ...

Abstract: This paper introduces a vision-based gesture mouse system, which is roughly independent from the lighting conditions, because it only uses the depth data for hand sign recognition. A Kinect ...

$150 price on top of Xbox 360 console Half-second of inherent lag Fairly basic games Only handles two players at a time “Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, ...

After falling in love with videogames during the days of the GameCube, Michael Beckwith has been writing about them since 2014. After graduating from university with a degree in Computer Games Design ...

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 ...