Thanks to strong demand over the Black Friday weekend, Microsoft said it has sold more than 2.5 million units of its Kinect motion-sensing system for the Xbox 360. The sales numbers show that Kinect ...

Microsoft engineers spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about how they built the Kinect motion sensing system, offering a rare glimpse inside the secret world of product design. After being ...

Microsoft may have pulled the plug on Kinect, but research applications for the gaming peripheral continue to trickle out. The latest, from University of Missouri researchers, constitutes a pair of ...

There are a lot of futuristic things we're still waiting on: jet packs for the entire family, self-driving cars and time-travel, to name a few. But one new, pretty darn amazing bit of technology has ...

If you have played any games with Microsoft's new Kinect motion controller, then you've probably discovered this: You frequently wind up looking totally ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong, I think one of ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor has revolutionary potential, but it’s pricey at $250 for the Windows version. Enter Leap, which plans to sell a more accurate motion-sensing device called the Leap ...

Soon, you may not necessarily need to be fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) in order to interpret it. Scientists have hacked Microsoft's Xbox Kinect motion control sensor to read ASL. The ...

There's been some recent buzz about building Kinect motion controls into laptops, but judging from previous attempts, it's a bad idea. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan ...

Microsoft's Kinect gaming peripheral will be coming to the Windows operating system in Feburary. The company says is has sold 18 million units of the motion sensor. Roger Cheng Former Executive Editor ...

Aki Kanerva and Ilkka Kalliomäki aren't just any indie game developers. The Finnish duo is dedicated to motion gaming and, as studio Virtual Air Guitar, one of the few companies still making Kinect ...

Come on, no one’s surprised that a developer went and cobbled together a game that lets you air-tweak virtual body parts with Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor, are they? It’s real and nearly here, ...