Microsoft has announced Avatar Kinect for Xbox Live. The software uses Kinect to track movements and facial expressions, such as smiling and eyebrow movements, and then displays them on a user's ...

Are you being serious? Video Games are more interactive than movies, and playing a sports game on a console removes many variables such as having people that live nearby to play with, having SOMEWHERE ...

LAS VEGAS--As is the case each year, one of the centerpieces of the Consumer Electronics Show is the keynote address from the CEO of Microsoft. Since 2009, that job has fallen to Steve Ballmer, the ...

Microsoft's executive team is having some fun in honor of next week's launch of the Kinect motion-based control system for Xbox 360, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com ...

Xbox Live's Avatar Kinect captures facial and body movements, allowing you to hang out and perform in virtual spaces. Functionally, only rudimentary gestures can be detected, but we want to see it ...

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...

At CES 2011, Microsoft unveiled Avatar Kinect, a new Xbox 360 app that uses the Kinect camera to track your facial expressions for a personalized, glorified chatroom ...

Microsoft’s upcoming “Avatar Kinect” was pitched as a glorified chatroom. It didn’t sound that exciting. This real-time demonstration, though, at least makes ...

Avatar Kinect is now available to download for Kinect owners. The free Fun Labs add-on allows players to record videos as their Avatars and upload them to share online and on social networks. Avatar ...

The old Xbox 360 headset is gigantic and expensive, considering it only worked with the Xbox 360. The new Xbox 360 headset? Not only is it much, much better promises Senior Director of Xbox ...

Yesterday we showed you how Korean researchers are using motion capture suits to control robotic avatars. Today we have a project from students at University College London using an Xbox Kinect to ...

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 ...