When Microsoft started selling a basic Xbox One package without a Kinect V2 for $100 less, the result was unequivocal: Sales took off. Most gamers can take or leave the ubiquitous depth camera, ...

It remains to be seen whether Apple’s Face ID will be as convenient as Touch ID (it already failed on stage), but at the very least we can’t accuse Apple of not dedicating enough hardware to the task.

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

Kinect is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years, at least since Microsoft de-bundled the motion-tracking system from the Xbox One in 2014, knocking $100 off the price tag and making the ...

While many of us have been using our Microsoft Kinects for nothing more than some sport simulations and dance titles, it seems that there are some people who are actually trying to push the device's ...

Microsoft on Feb. 1 will roll out Kinect for Windows as it tries to leverage Xbox’s best feature and natural user interface for broader use. In a blog post, Microsoft outlined how it plans on turning ...

After a long wait, Microsoft today is releasing Avatar Kinect, the online video chat application for Xbox that uses the Kinect sensor to track facial expressions and mouth movements and translate them ...

This year was the last Microsoft keynote at CES and by most accounts the bright spot was the expansion of the Kinect line with a new Kinect for Windows. The new SDK and hardware is aimed at commercial ...

Microsoft had big plans for its motion-sensing Xbox camera, Kinect, but things did not work out exactly as the company wanted. And now, after selling millions across its Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions ...

As sure as night follows day, and a greasy, carbohydrate-laden breakfast follows a drunken night out, so iFixit has followed the launch of Microsoft's new Kinect by tearing one apart and photographing ...

I hate having to write about this sort of thing, but some people are clinging to the debunked story that Microsoft’s Kinect doesn’t recognize black people. Pack journalists and blogs gleefully jumped ...

Company announces first interactive sex game for Microsoft's Kinect. Dec. 16, 2010— -- Microsoft's hot new gaming gadget Kinect is getting kinky. The hands-free gaming system may have been ...