In a conference center room on Microsoft’s Redmond campus Thursday, a slim, bespectacled CEO clad in a white lab coat was waving his arms wildly. Behind him, on a flat screen, a cartoon blackbird ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Todd Bishop on May 17, 2012 at 5:18 ...

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect ...

Tech-minded teachers from across the country are on the Microsoft campus in Redmond this week, sharing some of the new ways they’re incorporating technology into their classrooms. The event is the ...

Microsoft has launched the Kinect for Windows commercial license program. The sensor features the latest Microsoft Speech components such as: “near mode” which sees objects as close as 40 centimeters ...

A team of computer scientists has created a software program that watches a user's movements and gives spoken feedback on what to change to accurately complete a yoga pose. Researchers hope this will ...

Microsoft really wants to see what startups can do with their motion-based Kinect camera. Selling 8 million in 60 days wasn't enough, and Microsoft sees the future of gaming (and technology) as a huge ...

[programing4fun] has been playing around with his Kinect-based 3D display and building a holographic WALL-E controllable with a Windows phone. It’s a ‘kid safe’ version of his Terminator personal ...

Some French programmers have used the open-source version of Kinect which allows the device to recognize American sign-language. So far, it only recognizes the signs for "hello” and “sorry”,but more ...

The new Kinect bundled with Xbox One won't be exclusive to that platform, Shacknews has learned. According to Kinect program manager Scott Evans, Microsoft plans on bringing the new Kinect to PC. "We ...

With the ridiculous number of amazing Kinect hacks already out there, it seems like there's nothing the little black bar can't do — and in the near future we may be able to add clairvoyance to its ...

Microsoft on Friday announced a program designed to help ten developers or startups launch businesses around products for Kinect, the controller that senses motion and voice. Developers with Kinect ...