Just a few days after showing off photos of the new Kinect for Windows, Microsoft announced at its Build conference that the motion-tracking device will hit shelves sometime this summer.

Unveiling a new Kinect device specifically for Windows was a surprise. Developers have already been working with an official Microsoft beta SDK for Xbox Kinect units for noncommercial use on ...

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 for Windows has enabled a lot of hacks and apps in recent ...

Going forward, you’ll have to purchase both of these to build Windows apps that make use of Microsoft’s Kinect. The adapter lets you use the Kinect for Xbox One with Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 ...

Microsoft is readying a 1.5 release of its Kinect for Windows product for late May that will add a new app for developers to help them debug their products based on recorded user interactions.

Microsoft has consolidated its Xbox One and PC models of Kinect into one: the Xbox One version with an optional Windows adapter. Goodbye Kinect for Windows v2. We hardly knew ye. "Over the past ...

Microsoft on Feb. 1 will roll out Kinect for Windows as it tries to leverage Xbox's best feature and natural user interface for broader use. In a blog post, Microsoft outlined how it plans on ...

Microsoft is inching closer to delivering the second version of its Kinect for Windows sensor, and is showing off what the final hardware will look like. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered ...

Robust Skeletal Tracking for high-performance capabilities that track the skeleton image of one or two persons moving within the Kinect field of view Advanced Audio Capabilities, including four ...

Learn More. Microsoft has made the version 1.0 of its Kinect for Windows software development kit and runtime available for download. “Looking towards the future, we are planning on releasing ...

Microsoft's Kinect for Windows sensor and software has been used for a variety of applications and earlier this year it released a new update to its SDK giving developers more tools and features ...

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