Microsoft can’t hope to mount Kinect sensors at the top of every notebook PC, so it may adopt a different approach: Using the webcams that are already built into most PCs and tablets. Michael Mott, ...

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

Oh my! When the folks at iFixit tore down a Microsoft Kinect they found a strong little fan among the many, many sensors. They suspect that Microsoft’s a bit paranoid about heat dissipation after the ...

Could your Xbox Kinect camera be spying on you? According to secret documents provided by Edward Snowden to The Guardian, as part of Britain's "Optic Nerve" program, the country's top intelligence ...

In 2013, Microsoft chose to price the Xbox One at $500, a full $100 more than its main competitor, the PlayStation 4. The price difference was due to the inclusion of the Kinect camera, a sensor ...

Peripheral maker PDP will release a Kinect TV Mount peripheral for the Xbox One that features a "privacy cover" allowing users to block the camera's RGB and IR cameras. The $20 peripheral was revealed ...

Another week, another hacked Kinect story. At this rate you’d think Microsoft actually intended the device for homebrew. It’s like watching America’s Got Talent for geeks. Or voyeurs. The latest ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing camera for its Xbox consoles was walking dead for the longest time. Last October, it finally passed away peacefully — or so we thought. At its Build developer ...