It may not be obvious, but Valve’s Steam Deck is capable of being more than just a games console. Demonstrating this is [Parker Reed]’s experiment in 3D scanning his kitchen with a Kinect and Steam ...

The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to capture all angles and stitch it ...

University of California, San Diego students preparing for a future archaeological dig to Jordan will likely pack a Microsoft Kinect, but it won't be used for post-dig, all-night gaming marathons.

<em>Star Wars Kinect</em> aside, Microsoft wants to remind you that its motion control hardware isn't all play; the company has finally announced the eleven finalists ...

A quite literal addition to our Digital Home section is Skanect; another Kinect mod that shows off how sophisticated Microsoft’s little sensor bar is and makes us wish we’d paid more attention in DT ...

There's not much business in making gadgets for archaeologists, but that has not stopped the modern day Indiana Jones types from adapting the tools of other trades for their painstaking explorations ...

Microsoft zal maandag een update voor de Kinect for Windows-sdk uitbrengen die het developers mogelijk maakt om handherkenning toe te passen in software. Daarnaast kunnen er volgens de softwaregigant ...

De Intel RealSense 3D-hardware lijkt op de Kinect-camera van Microsoft. Naast een 1080p-camera voor 2d-beelden heeft de chipfabrikant ook een dieptesensor aan de RealSense 3D toegevoegd. Daarmee is de ...

Google Street View eat your heart out: An MIT-built quadrocopter uses Microsoft Kinect, and some smart odometry algorithms, to fly around a room and spit out a 3D map of the environment. The drone ...

[Photo: UNC Chapel Hill] Microsoft Kinect hacking just got a little more interesting. There are tons of Kinect hacks now out there since the gaming accessory’s release last year, but none of them ...