RealSense, a depth-camera technology that basically disappeared within Intel, has returned as a separate company. The company ...

The Kinect is a depth-sensing camera peripheral originally designed as a accessory for the Xbox gaming console, and it quickly found its way into hobbyist and research projects.

Microsoft can’t hope to mount Kinect sensors at the top of every notebook PC, so it may adopt a different approach: Using the webcams that are already built into most PCs and tablets.

Microsoft didn’t invent the Kinect technology, they licensed it from Primesense. After Primesense worked with Google and demo’d an Android tablet with an embedded PrimeSense 3D camera, Apple ...

Microsoft is no longer manufacturing Kinect cameras, according to a press account today, citing Microsoft officials. Kinect cameras were originally Xbox 360 gaming console accessory devices, but ...

Drawing on Kinect’s dual cameras, a UC Davis researcher managed to tap the motion sensor’s depth-tracking prowess with software that scans in objects and reconstructs them in realtime. One ...

After a quick demo of how the new Kinect's four-microphone array can filter out distracting sounds from a TV speaker, I jumped in front of the camera to test how the new Kinect's improved skeletal ...

This is a little confusing, but it looks like there's another Kinect driver out in the wild, and this one is actually available for download. The folks at NUI Group, who posted results first, are ...

Here's one of the more unique uses of Microsoft's Kinect. A project called Fabricate Yourself turns the Kinect into a 3D printer of sorts. Well, a 3D modeler for a 3D printer. You'd best follow ...

Microsoft’s Kinect camera promised quite a bit when it was first introduced to Xbox 360 gamers around the world, but it didn’t really deliver. There were a few so-so games, but even when it ...

The Kinect comes with a VGA camera, which aids with facial recognition and identifying body shapes, as well as a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor, which means it can sense depth and see in 3-D.

The clip for Echo Lake's Young Silence could well be the first music video filmed with a Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect camera. Click here to see the Kinect creation.