Microsoft discontinued the Kinect today, ending the motion-sensing Xbox peripheral's lifespan after seven long years of gaming mediocrity and wasted potential. Although the Kinect wasn't exactly a ...

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

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 ...

Kinect Sports is an immersive sports video game created by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360, harnessing the innovative Kinect motion-sensing technology. This title ...

Abstract: In this paper we present a somatosensory interaction manner based on the human skeletal information. Firstly, we use Kinect sensor to obtain image depth of field data, and capture the joint ...

This app demonstrates the core capabilities of the Kinect for Windows v2 technology and helps developers understand the core capabilities of the technology. However, you will need to purchase a Kinect ...

Abstract: With the comprehensive progress of science and technology, virtual characters have begun to enter people’s vision. There is still a gap between virtual characters and real people. Hence, the ...

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 ...

What just happened? Microsoft's Kinect device is no longer being produced. You might think that this happened years ago, and you'd be right. The version being killed ...

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 ...