Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to stop offering its Azure Kinect Developer Kit, although it will still license its depth-sensing camera technology to partners. The Azure Kinect ...

What is Azure Kinect DK? While the Kinect brand is best associated with a motion-sensing device for gaming, those days are behind it: Kinect is all about business now. The latest model is called the ...

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 ...

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 ...

While HoloLens 2 is undoubtedly the aspirational star of Microsoft’s augmented-reality (AR) offerings, the company isn’t putting all its eggs in that particular basket. Alongside the new HoloLens ...

It was never the gaming revolution Microsoft thought it’d be, but Kinect found some utility in the business world Microsoft Xbox It finally happened. Microsoft has fully ended production of Kinect ...

is a senior correspondent 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 ...

Microsoft has ended production of Azure Kinect, the successor to the Xbox peripheral, drawing a line under the motion-sensing camera's lifespan. As announced in a blog post, the company will stop ...

Kinect has problems recognizing dark-skinned users? [UPDATE] GameSpot testing suggests facial recognition features of motion-sensing camera system might not work properly for some gamers; Microsoft ...

Prototype for Microsoft's shortly shipping, motion-sensing system did not come cheap; hardware now profitable at $150 each. Q&A: Phil Spencer discusses how "all genres" will support Microsoft's motion ...