Walt Disney is often talked about as the godfather of animation, but that honor truly belongs to two Frenchmen: Charles-Émile Reynaud projected the first animation onto a screen in 1877 and Émile Cohl ...

Upon the release of the Kinect, Microsoft showed off its golden child as the beginnings of a revolution in user interface technology. The skeleton and motion detection promised a futuristic, ...

When Microsoft released its Kinect Software Development Kit (SDK) to developers to fuel innovation on the Kinect platform, the possibilities were palpable. Projects like Open Kinect have made real ...

A team of animators has hacked Microsoft’s Kinect sensor suite to create a motion-replication system that powers CGI characters. Remember Gollum in Lord of The Rings? Yup–kinda like that. (But way ...

Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 SDK will include a new Kinect Studio app, seated skeletal tracking, and four new speech recognition languages. Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 SDK will include a ...

We’ve already seen one way Microsoft’s Kinect can be used to help bedroom game developers, but here’s another, just as practical way: it can allow for home ...

Ubisoft's Frederic Blais is overseeing the company's Kinect output and like Blitz Games, they too are stepping aside from using the Microsoft libraries, but for other reasons. "The process is not so ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion-tracking sensor for Windows and Xbox 360 can today, out of the box, keep track of basic body parts like your arms and legs. It’s not very good at keeping track of rapid ...

Since Microsoft released its Kinect accessory for Xbox 360, it’s become the “it” gadget for hackers. And we’ve seen so many hacks for it since its introduction that, well, we’ve kind of lost count. So ...