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In a conference center room on Microsoft’s Redmond campus Thursday, a slim, bespectacled CEO clad in a white lab coat was waving his arms wildly. Behind him, on a flat screen, a cartoon blackbird ...

Tech-minded teachers from across the country are on the Microsoft campus in Redmond this week, sharing some of the new ways they’re incorporating technology into their classrooms. The event is the ...

The Kinect for Windows commercial program has launched, putting the power of Kinect into the hands of companies worldwide. Any business can join innovation leaders, such as United Health Group, ...

Microsoft unwittingly created quite the hacking cottage industry when it first introduced Kinect. Though it took awhile for the company to come to grips with the amazing inventions enabled by its ...

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect ...

Microsoft’s new program for entrepreneurs is a cool opportunity for people who have an excellent idea for a commercial application for the Kinect motion-sensing input device but haven’t actually ...

Microsoft has launched the Kinect for Windows commercial license program. The sensor features the latest Microsoft Speech components such as: “near mode” which sees objects as close as 40 centimeters ...

Some French programmers have used the open-source version of Kinect which allows the device to recognize American sign-language. So far, it only recognizes the signs for "hello” and “sorry”,but more ...

With the ridiculous number of amazing Kinect hacks already out there, it seems like there's nothing the little black bar can't do — and in the near future we may be able to add clairvoyance to its ...

The new Kinect bundled with Xbox One won't be exclusive to that platform, Shacknews has learned. According to Kinect program manager Scott Evans, Microsoft plans on bringing the new Kinect to PC. "We ...

A team of computer scientists has created a software program that watches a user's movements and gives spoken feedback on what to change to accurately complete a yoga pose. Researchers hope this will ...