Xbox One's Kinect controller is a double edged sword. While some praise its new advance motion tracking others are keen to use it as a stick to punish Microsoft for its insistence that every Xbox ...

Just a few days after showing off photos of the new Kinect for Windows, Microsoft announced at its Build conference that the motion-tracking device will hit shelves sometime this summer. The Redmond ...

The new Kinect that will come with every Xbox One console. Among the array of new features unveiled at Microsoft’s Xbox One revealing on Tuesday were the upgrades to the new Kinect sensor. Today ...

Microsoft (MSFT 0.07%) can't seem to catch a break on the gaming front. The company's announcement that it will ship a Kinect-less SKU of its Xbox One console at $399 debuted to mixed reactions. While ...

The running theme is that by removing Kinect as an integral part of the sytem, the Xbox One has more or less lost its identity, and now exists as a less powerful version of the PS4 with a slightly ...

Microsoft is now selling the Xbox One Kinect as a standalone device for around $150. Here’s why it was the wrong play. Therefore, a stand-alone Kinect should logically cost $100, or even less ...

Kinect developers or those of your looking to start developing Kinect based apps for Windows with the launch of the new Kinect For Windows V2. Will be please to know that is being made available later ...

The Xbox One may have hogged the spotlight, but the next-gen console wasn’t the only piece of new hardware Microsoft unveiled this past week. The company also announced a next generation version of ...

The Kinect 2.0 camera makes up a big part of the Xbox One package from Microsoft. Even though the device is no longer a requirement for using the system, as had initially been the plan, it is still ...

A Kinect-less version of the Xbox One will be available June 9 for $399, Microsoft announced today. The package will be available "in all markets where Xbox One is sold," said Phil Spencer, head of ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

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