This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the ...

Now that smartphones are shipping with the same kind of high-quality depth-sensing and motion tracking cameras that Microsoft had used in its Kinect accessories for Xbox consoles… Microsoft is ...

Microsoft’s Kinect, the depth-sensing, motion-tracking technology, might be dead as a product, but the hardware lives on, and is being used for far more than just video games now. This experimental ...

Microsoft marketing claims depth sensing by time of flight for IR light. That's bogus, as it would require a sub-nanosecond light source and image sensor. Neither are currently affordable for a ...

While the Azure Kinect Developer Kit will no longer be made, the Kinect depth-sensing camera technology from Microsoft will continue to be used by third parties for their own devices. Microsoft ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming peripheral, but recognizing that a depth sensor is too cool to leave for dead, development continued even after Xbox gaming peripherals were ...

Few companies have the research depth to build something like Kinect, Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox add-on that allows a user to control a game through body movements -- in fact, Microsoft itself ...

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 ...