Live is dead, or will be very soon. Sky Live, the motion-sensing camera that attaches to the Sky Glass TV, is being shut down ...

Fifteen years later, we know the Kinect as an expensive failure. Microsoft overestimated the demand for playing games with your body. But the Kinect did still turn out to be revolutionary — just not ...

While the industry may be focused on Sony and the PlayStation 4 today, some specs of the next Kinect have seemingly leaked and shouldn't be overlooked. With Sony's announcement, it would behoove ...

The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to capture all angles and stitch it together ...

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 ...

So what does Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-control camera really do as it’s capturing your movements? One enterprising individual turned to the magic of night vision optics to find out. The result ...

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Kinect occupies a strange place in the tech world. It’s a nearly universally beloved piece of technology that was both ahead of its time and very much of its time, all at once. It felt — for a moment ...

Nex is developing something similar to Kinect: a body motion-control sensor called Nex Playground. According to a press release, Nex Playground "sees your body movements," and doesn't require headsets ...