You can change your cookie settings at any time by clicking “ Preferences .” Microsoft Research leader Desney Tan is leaving the company after 21 years, closing a career that spanned breakthrough work ...

Life would be better with flashy comic book sound effects. At least, that’s what one group of students thinks. Four students at Carnegie Mellon University worked together to create “Comic Kinect,” a ...

I became fascinated by the Xbox 360 Kinect system long before it hit the stores—back when Microsoft was still developing it under the name Project Natal. The commercial product hasn't yet delivered on ...

"[Something] we struggled with in the games industry for a long time is building an emotional connection between the person playing and the characters inside the games. With Kinect, [you are] able to ...

Kinect has branched out from its gaming roots to PC interaction, and we're chatting with Bob Heddle, director, Kinect for Windows at Microsoft to see how the hardware is changing natural ...

Mathieu Marunczyn works at the Jackson School in Victoria, Australia. The school works with children with special needs and, after buying a Microsoft Kinect and playing "Happy Action Theater" with his ...

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...

Get ready for more motion sensor controlled gaming. PrimeSense, the Israeli company that created the depth sensor for Microsoft’s Kinect, announced today that they will be bringing that technology to ...

Multitouch is so 2011. The future of computer interaction is gestures. Instead of swiping a finger, say analysts, we’ll be waving our hand. And in one of those ‘back to the future moments,’ Microsoft, ...

Philipp Robbel, a PhD student at MIT's Personal Robotics Group, has combined the Kinect motion controller with an iRobot Create platform to create a battery powered robot that can see its environment ...

When you think of hacking, school assignments probably aren’t the first thing that come to mind. But then again, you’re probably not in Golan Levin’s Interactive Art & Computational Design course at ...