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Microsoft Corp made available on Thursday a Windows 7-compatible test version of the software behind its hit Kinect motion-sensing game device, in the hope that developers will invent a host of "hands ...

Microsoft's Kinect for Windows sensor and development kit are coming to China and a handful of other new markets this fall. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a ...

Rumour has it Microsoft will release a software development kit for Kinect for Windows this week. WinRumors reports Microsoft will announce the SDK during a live-streamed Channel 9 event on Thursday.

Microsoft has launched a new adapter hardware kit which allows people to connect an Xbox One Kinect sensor to their Windows 8/8.1 PCs. The device costs £29.99 (US$49.99) via the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Carl Franklin has developed a new gesture toolkit for Kinect for Windows that promises to allow gesture capture and recognition with little coding required. His ...

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 ...

Microsoft is making available a $49 adapter kit that will allow Kinect for Xbox One sensors available for use with Windows 8/8.1 PCs and tablets. Microsoft also is enabling developers to make their ...

Microsoft has yet to provide an exact launch date, but it will allow companies to use Kinect for commercial purposes starting sometime in early 2012. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

Microsoft is still Microsoft. Despite Apple’s dominating brand and their ability to steal headlines — iPhone 5 and iPad 3 come to mind — the creative brains at Microsoft have been busy themselves, for ...

If you are interested in using Kinect on Windows 8, you can now purchase a PC adapter for the camera peripheral. For $49/£31 and the latest Kinect software development kit update, users will be able ...

If you’re waiting for Microsoft’s official do-it-yourself motion-sensing PC kit, you won’t have to wait much longer. Microsoft says the Kinect for Windows software development kit (beta) will ship ...