Microsoft marketing claims depth sensing by time of flight for IR light. That's bogus, as it would require a sub-nanosecond light source and image sensor. Neither are currently affordable for a ...

This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the ...

Mapping the insides of anything in real time is hard. Certainly harder than it looks in movies like The Dark Knight, where, near the end, a bat-suited Christian Bale dashes through a high-rise, taking ...

Few companies have the research depth to build something like Kinect, Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox add-on that allows a user to control a game through body movements -- in fact, Microsoft itself ...

The technology behind Microsoft’s enterprise-focused computer vision camera, the Azure Kinect developer kit, will soon find its way into commercial products. Microsoft is collaborating with two ...

Microsoft’s motion sensor peripheral Kinect has officially ceased production, according to tech publication Co.Design. Though Microsoft has been noticeably cutting back on implementing Kinect-centric ...