Microsoft announced its Azure Kinect camera modules alongside HoloLens 2 early in 2019. Both devices use the same mixed-reality camera module, using a time-of-flight depth sensor to map objects around ...

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 ...

The depth sensor can be used to see if someone is just rolling over in their bed or trying to stand up, which can help nurses get to a room before patients potentially fall out of bed. The Azure ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could ...

Kinect has been a product that Microsoft has been betting on and hyping for about a year and a half now, ever since revealing Project Natal at E3 2009. The motion sensing gaming peripheral is finally ...

This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

The enterprising patent watchdogs over at Neogaf have unearthed two previously-undiscovered Sony patents—one, a sensor similar to Kinect, and the other, an add-on for next-gen consoles that would ...

Microsoft has unveiled the HoloLens 2 headset at MWC 2019. It heralds the new mixed reality wearable as delivering "the most comfortable and immersive mixed reality experience available." In technical ...