A Microsoft Kinect hack lets World of Warcraft players cast spells, fight opponents and maneuver their characters using simple hand gestures and body movements. "Our software communicates with the ...

Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages.

A new SteamVR mod from the developer behind WalkinVR now allows body tracking by emulating Vive Trackers via Kinect’s motion sensing data, enabling an inexpensive solution for full body motion ...

The depth-sensing capabilities of the Microsoft's Kinect has seen it put to use in a number of unexpected applications, such as helping Parkinson's sufferers to walk and the visually impaired to ...

Who doesn't want to be a Jedi Knight and say, "Lightsaber, on" before slicing the air with your arm, um lightsaber, to cut down a few Storm Troopers? With Microsoft's demo of the much anticipated ...

We've become so familiar with the "Project Natal" codename over the years that our tongues are still having a little trouble wrapping around Microsoft's new Kinect moniker for it. Still, what's in a ...

Jennifer Roland is a freelance writer with a passion for ed tech. The marketing campaigns for Microsoft's Kinect proclaim, "You are the controller." But enterprising teachers see a bigger role for ...

Diagrams from the Microsoft patent filing. (Credit: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) Sorry, kid, but you’ve got the arms of a 12-year-old, and you’re not ...

Kinect creative boss Kudo Tsunoda has said in an MCV interview the future Kinect tech could sense the tone of voice and the body stance of the person playing it. "We’ve done so much work just with ...

Microsoft recently announced the latest version of Windows, Windows 8, and also launched a developer preview of Windows 8. Today, it announced the launch of a beta version of an SDK (software ...

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The Kinect is the hacking gift that keeps on giving. Whether it’s recreating the Minority Report interface, generating holograms, or just making life a bit more comic, the Kinect has been hacked six ...