Microsoft announced the new Kinect Sensor for existing Xbox 360 console owners will be available on November 4th for $149 in the U.S. The Kinect Sensor will come packaged with the video game Kinect ...

A year ago, the Xbox One was more than just the wireless controller and giant black box that now sells for $399. At the time, it was important to Microsoft that every single one of the consoles it ...

Microsoft stopped producing the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor today after phasing out the original sensor not long ago. The company emphasized, however, that this does not mean it will stop supporting ...

Four months after it began selling the Xbox One without a Kinect sensor in June, Microsoft will now offer up a way for customers to purchase the motion-tracking device separately. The company ...

Microsoft will be selling only the remaining stocks of the original Kinect for Windows sensor and has no plans to manufacture new units. The company announced that it is retiring the sensor sometime ...

WHEN Microsoft’s Kinect gaming sensor first exploded onto the gaming scene in 2010, it wasn’t long before people started getting excited about what it might make possible. But despite some imaginative ...

Microsoft debuted the fourth generation of its Kinect sensor on Monday, bringing the hardware inside the next-generation HoloLens to the company’s developer community. The Project Kinect for Azure ...

It was only a matter of time before Microsoft lay the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor to rest. They released a Kinect Adaptor for Windows last fall which allows users to use an Xbox One Kinect sensor on ...

Microsoft has begun shipping the second version of its Kinect gesture and voice recognition system to Windows developers. The Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview kits are now being sent to those ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming peripheral, but recognizing that a depth sensor is too cool to leave for dead, development continued even after Xbox gaming peripherals were ...

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 ...