MIT Personal Robotics Group has been busy hacking Microsoft’s Kinect system and combining it with an iRobot to create some fantastic results. MIT has created a low-cost localization and mapping ...

Microsoft's new gizmo, the Kinect motion sensor, kinda freaks me out. The Xbox 360 attachment, in stores as of this morning, looks like a misshapen replacement head for Johnny 5 from Short Circuit, ...

It sounds like Asus wants to cash in on Microsoft’s recently announced Kinect for Windows setup — the company’s rolling out actual laptops that include Microsoft’s motion-sensing technology built in.

Whether Microsoft is ready to fully admit it or not, the Redmond outfit incorrectly surmised that bundling a second generation Kinect motion control sensor with the Xbox One and charging a $100 ...

Intrepid but flawed, Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensor for Xbox 360 offers true controller-free gaming at a reasonable price, but suffers from serious accuracy and tracking issues. You might say ...

When Microsoft introduced the Xbox One with a lavish media event in fall 2013, much of the hype focused not on gaming but on using the console to control your television. The company demonstrated how, ...

There are a lot of futuristic things we're still waiting on: jet packs for the entire family, self-driving cars and time-travel, to name a few. But one new, pretty darn amazing bit of technology has ...

There's been some recent buzz about building Kinect motion controls into laptops, but judging from previous attempts, it's a bad idea. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor has revolutionary potential, but it’s pricey at $250 for the Windows version. Enter Leap, which plans to sell a more accurate motion-sensing device called the Leap ...

The games industry moves pretty fast, and there's a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what's next without so much worrying about what came before. That said, even an industry so ...