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.

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 ...

“I’m thrilled to announce that Kinect is coming to Windows on February 1,” Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said in his final keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES ...

Kinect 2.0 for Windows will be on sale starting July 15th for $199. Microsoft is selling it mainly as a way for developers to mess around with the tech's applications, saying that the peripheral ...

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 ...

See About archive blog posts. Microsoft released a new Kinect for Windows software development kit on Thursday that works with the company’s Windows 7 operating system. The new Kinect for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Microsoft announced a special next-generation Kinect for Windows pre-release developer program earlier today, the move got us wondering whether Windows-based tinkerers couldn't just plug the ...

Microsoft released on October 8 an updated version of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) that includes support for Desktop applications running on Windows 8. Company officials ...

I got a chance to get a closer look at Microsoft’s new Azure Kinect DK at Mobile World Congress today, and I’m surprised at how much smaller it is compared to the Kinect for Windows sensor.