Kinect needs a lot of room, more room than any video game control device before it. But where there’s a will to move furniture or rotate TVs, there is a way. This is how we made room in two homes.

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We’ve seen hacks for the Kinect from the very start, and even some that suggested one like this might be possible: a Kinect being moved around like a camera, recording the depth of everything it sees ...

The room is completely dark, save for the soft light of a computer monitor. A solitary man stands in the middle of the old, musty foyer, surrounded by an audience of several ancient pieces of ...

Starting this spring, people who own an Xbox 360 and a Kinect sensor will be able to use avatars to talk to each other in a variety of virtual worlds, with their avatars not only mimicking their ...

A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft’s video games research center here, watching people play the company’s Xbox systems. He looks for smiles, ...

Microsoft has attempted to reassure privacy-perplexed gamers that the new Xbox One will not be a permanent spy camera in their living room, promising that the updated Kinect sensor will support ...

One of the three “cameras” on the face of the Kinect is actually an IR projector, throwing out infrared light so the other (non-RGB) camera can get a sense of your room in 3D space. It’s invisible to ...

And just like that, all three of the major game consoles now have some semblance of motion controls. Unlike the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation Move, however, Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 opts to get ...