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 ...

(Finger movements, for now, can't be resolved because of current limits of camera resolution.) "This was the missing piece," says Blake. "Seeing the harlequin figure moving on the screen, with the ...

Microsoft's next-generation Kinect will detect eye movement, a report has suggested. Using Kinect 2.0, users will apparently be able to pause entertainment content by looking away from the TV screen.

Microsoft's Kinect 2 for Windows went on pre-order this weekend, and Microsoft has published an extensive piece on how it built Kinect's capabilities, functions, and sophisticated software body ...

This cool demonstration by Design I/O, which produces “interactive installations” shows the Kinect being used to project animated hand puppets that respond to the user’s movements. Design I/O built it ...

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 ...

A jungle drumbeat stirs the air at Jefferson and Figueroa on a balmy June Sunday evening in downtown Los Angeles. The vast Galen Centre, normally a University of Southern California sports arena, has ...