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, ...

Born and raised in Germany, Jennifer fell in love with video games at an early age when playing Pac-Man at a friend's house. After graduating from university with a degree in computer science, she ...

It was never the gaming revolution Microsoft thought it’d be, but Kinect found some utility in the business world Microsoft Xbox It finally happened. Microsoft has fully ended production of Kinect ...

Microsoft has ended production of Azure Kinect, the successor to the Xbox peripheral, drawing a line under the motion-sensing camera's lifespan. As announced in a blog post, the company will stop ...

The Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 2.0 enables developers to create applications that support gesture and voice recognition, using Kinect sensor technology on computers running ...

Earlier this year, when the Xbox 360 add-on Kinect was still known as “Project Natal,” reports surfaced that Microsoft was tearing one of the cameras processors out the hardware. Kinect general ...

Kinect has problems recognizing dark-skinned users? [UPDATE] GameSpot testing suggests facial recognition features of motion-sensing camera system might not work properly for some gamers; Microsoft ...