Microsoft took the lid off of its curious face-tracking Xbox 360 communication service Avatar Kinect this week. The tech, which was first revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show last month, lets ...

Apple is rumored to be in acquisition talks with Israeli development company PrimeSense, which created the range camera technology Microsoft used as a base for the Xbox 360's 3D-motion tracking Kinect ...

Microsoft has released Avatar Kinect for the Xbox 360, a feature announced back at CES 2011, which lets Xbox Live subscribers create a personalized 3D avatar that mimics them in a variety of online ...

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.

Apple's purchase of PrimeSense last week had all the tech industries howling. The Israel-based company's motion tracking technology had largely informed early versions of Kinect, Microsoft's ...

Microsoft may have conspicuously ignored Kinect in its Gamescon event today, going as far as to leave the motion sensor out of all three of its new Xbox One bundles, but that doesn't mean the rest of ...

Whether it's for computer games, motion analysis in sports, or even medical examinations, many applications require that people and their movements are captured digitally in 3D in real-time. Until now ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion-tracking sensor for Windows and Xbox 360 can today, out of the box, keep track of basic body parts like your arms and legs. It’s not very good at keeping track of rapid ...

File this under cool shit we probably won’t see for a long time. Apple just recently filed filed an expanded patent application for a system that would detect hand/head motion around a computer and ...

The source code of 'KalidoKit ', a tool that tracks facial expressions, body and hand movements and reflects them in 3D models, has been released on GitHub. By using this Kalido Kit, it is also ...

A research group at MIT's CSAIL has created a high-resolution, 3D motion tracking system that works through walls and other obstructions. From a static location connected to a computer, the system can ...

While HoloLens 2 is undoubtedly the aspirational star of Microsoft's augmented-reality (AR) offerings, the company isn't putting all its eggs in that particular basket. Alongside the new HoloLens ...