T he Xbox Kinect was Microsoft’s big push into motion and gesture-controlled gaming, debuting right around the same time as ...

It projects an infrared grid onto objects and analyzes the distortions in this pattern to calculate depth ... For Kinect V1: Xbox 360 Kinect sensor; Kinect-to-USB adapter; Windows PC with USB 2.0 ...

Car enthusiasts with 3D printers are picking up old Xbox Kinect accessories to 3D scan ... By mapping the location of dots projected by the infrared grid, the sensor is able to overlay both feeds ...

The $399 Azure Kinect Developer Kit is a small white unit with two camera lenses, one for a wide-angle RGB camera and one for the Kinect depth sensor, and an array of microphones.

The Kinect SLS Camera has an infrared light projector with a monochrome CMOS sensor that shows everything as dots arranged in 3D formation.“These infrared dots allow the camera to show depth and ...

Even though Kinect may be dead, here are six things you can still do with the Xbox One accessory. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

After getting discontinued in the Fall of 2017, the Microsoft Kinect is back, but not for gaming. Project Kinect for Azure is a version of the pioneering camera/sensor array, designed for businesses.

On Tuesday, Polygon reported that Microsoft had killed the USB adapter for the ahead-of-its-time motion sensor for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. That adapter let the Kinect work with the modern Xbox ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it had discontinued the USB adapter for the Kinect sensor, a pioneering motion-sensing accessory line for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One that sold almost 30 million ...

When Microsoft introduced the Kinect in 2010, Gizmodo called it the “future of gaming” and possibly the future of “computers everywhere.” The accessory emits thousands of infrared light ...

Yet while the Kinect as a standalone product is off the market, its core sensor lives on. Kinect v4–and soon to be, v5–powers Microsoft’s augmented reality Hololens , which Kipman also created.