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Kinect for Windows 1.5 will feature '10-joint' skeletal tracking and four new speech recognition languages

By Tom Warren on March 27, 2012 12:52 pm + 11 comments

Microsoft may have shipped Kinect for Windows out of beta on February 1st, but the company is Continue reading…
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'Making Things See' can teach you how to hack the Kinect

By Jeff Blagdon on March 18, 2012 02:03 pm + 5 comments

With the Kinect, Microsoft is providing today's hackers with a powerful off-the-shelf system for Continue reading…
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Microsoft's 'Beamatron' combines a projector with a Kinect to augment reality

By Ryan Heise on March 16, 2012 07:02 am + 4 comments

Microsoft Research is continuing its trend of showing off some pretty cool demos, this time with the Continue reading…
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Sony ships over 10.5 million PlayStation Move controllers

By Sam Byford on March 8, 2012 06:15 am + 22 comments

Sony has let it be known at a Game Developers Conference panel that the PlayStation Move motion Continue reading…
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Kinect and Canon 5D combine for candid 3D imagery

By Sam Byford on March 2, 2012 03:13 am + 2 comments

In our Lytro review, we mentioned seeing a preview of an upcoming mode that allows you to manipulate Continue reading…
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Microsoft blends Windows Phone and Kinect into a 'Holoflector' augmented reality mirror

By Tom Warren on February 28, 2012 12:00 am + 18 comments

Microsoft unveiled its latest "Holoflector" research project today. The augmented reality mirror is Continue reading…
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Kinect for Windows Media Center app adds gesture and voice control for $6.99

By Tom Warren on February 15, 2012 08:34 am + 24 comments

Now that Microsoft's Kinect for Windows hardware is available, one particular developer has Continue reading…
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'Fruit Ninja Kinect' sells 500,000 on 360, 'Jetpack Joyride' downloaded 14 million times

By Andrew Webster on February 9, 2012 06:06 pm + 7 comments

Fruit Ninja may be best known as a multi-million selling mobile game where you get to slice oranges Continue reading…
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Next-gen Xbox not arriving this year, confirms Microsoft France

By Bryan Bishop on January 30, 2012 01:23 pm + 88 comments

Rumors about Microsoft's successor to the Xbox 360 have been flying lately, but that doesn't mean a Continue reading…
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Next Xbox bringing Blu-ray drive, Kinect 2, and 'anti-used-game' system?

By Sean Hollister on January 25, 2012 04:55 pm + 222 comments

Kotaku's anonymous sources are reporting what could be a video game industry coup: according to the Continue reading…