It’s been ten years since Microsoft launched the Kinect camera and it lived quite a life. The Xbox 360 peripheral became a key part of the whole Xbox platform and then years later, almost just ...

Xbox One Kinect. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.

Kinect-free Xbox One bundles currently start at $350, compared to $500 for systems with the camera packed in. When the Xbox One was originally released in November 2013, ...

The end of the Kinect era began in 2016, when the updated Xbox One S launched without the proprietary Kinect port built into the console. Instead, users of the sensor needed to plug it into one of ...

In 2013, Microsoft chose to price the Xbox One at $500, a full $100 more than its main competitor, the PlayStation 4.The price difference was due to the inclusion of the Kinect camera, a sensor ...

When Microsoft started selling a basic Xbox One package without a Kinect V2 for $100 less, the result was unequivocal: Sales took off. Most gamers can take or leave the ubiquitous depth camera ...

The Kinect from the xbox one is just usb 3 with a dumb connector, and it basically drops into windows 10 like a plug and play device through you need some additional software to interpret all of ...

In another reversal of its original policies for the Xbox One, Microsoft said this week that the next-generation video game console will not require a persistent connection to the Kinect motion ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Despite making a splash when it launched for the Xbox 360 in 2010, the Kinect never ...

Kinect — which is currently an optional Xbox 360 accessory — has been a somewhat divisive device, with hardcore players in particular panning its sometimes imprecise tracking and its gimmicky ...

You might say Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 sacrifices the controller on the altar of accuracy. As I suspected this summer after giving the motion sensor a shake at E3, Microsoft’s $150 ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. The new Kinect included with the Xbox ...