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Original Xbox creator Seamus Blackley comments on the state of modern Xbox, explaining the brand can't go as low as the Kinect era.

A fan discovers the Xbox's Kinect system being used at Walmart for a purpose much different than it was originally intended for.

A year later, Microsoft said it would also stop production of the Xbox Kinect Adapter, the USB accessory that allowed Kinect owners to connect the sensor to an Xbox One S, Xbox One X, or Windows PC.

Microsoft later stopped bundling the Kinect with Xbox One, and the device moved on to Microsoft’s mixed reality and enterprise solutions.

Microsoft has ended production of Azure Kinect, the successor to the Xbox peripheral, drawing a line under the motion-sensing camera's lifespan. As announced in a blog post, the company will stop ...

The 2013 Xbox One "V2" Kinect was far more powerful, but the way Microsoft presented it to gamers ensured its untimely death and eventual relegation to business-only use cases.

Xbox Kinect gave players a preview of the future. Engadget reported that the gaming device was first launched in 2010. Microsoft produced another two versions after seven years but stopped making ...

Kinect may not have become the essential gaming tool it was tipped to be, but ten years later it's found a niche everywhere else.

Save for a few games that required the Kinect peripheral, anything playable on the Xbox One will work from day one on Xbox Series X/S.