Microsoft announces Project Kinect for Azure with its next-generation depth camera
Arguably the most interesting of all the Azure announcements at Microsoft’s Build 2018 conference today is Project Kinect for Azure. In short, the company...
This Microsoft Kinect-powered physical therapy app now has the FDA’s approval
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its 501(k) approval to Reflexion Health for its Vera system. What makes this...
New Microsoft patent lets Kinect make a physical 3D model of your face
Microsoft has been granted a patent for technology that converts the 3D scan data collected by the Kinect gaming sensor into a real physical replica...
Top gaming technologies of 2012
This year saw the continued evolution of three consumer technologies -- autostereoscopy, touch sensing, and motion sense – with direct application in the gaming world.
Kinect-based medical startup Jintronix wins International Startup Festival’s top prize
Founder of new startup gives physical therapy a technological boost after watching his father struggle with recovering from a stroke.
Kaggle launches competition to help Microsoft Kinect learn new gestures
What if it was as easy to add a new gesture to Microsoft Kinect as it is to create a keyboard shortcut? Big data...
Microsoft demos long-awaited Star Wars Kinect game (video)
It isn’t trapped in a galaxy far, far away any more. Microsoft finally unveiled a Star Wars game powered by its motion controller, the Kinect,...
Microsoft to Kinect owners: you’re going to Disneyland
Microsoft will unveil three new games for its Kinect device tomorrow at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles — one of which will...
Week in review: Skype outage affects tens of millions
Here’s our roundup of the of the week’s tech business news. (It’s shorter than usual, owing to the fact that there’s less going on...
Week in review: Call of Duty Black Ops shows games can beat movies
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Review: Call of...