The Wii revolutionized video games with its motion-sensitive controller. Now, Microsoft has one-upped Nintendo by getting rid of the controller completely. The Kinect, out in stores Thursday, attaches ...

Microsoft's Mike Ybarra says demand for Kinect gestures doesn't justify the investment needed to support them. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of ...

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Carl Franklin has developed a new gesture toolkit for Kinect for Windows that promises to allow gesture capture and recognition with little coding required. His ...

Ever since Nintendo's Wii, gesture and motion control have, more or less, gotten a bad rap. Microsoft's Kinect didn't help the matter, as users soon realized that it requires much less effort to press ...

What if it was as easy to add a new gesture to Microsoft Kinect as it is to create a keyboard shortcut? Big data startup Kaggle just launched a machine learning competition to develop an algorithm ...

[UPDATE] A Microsoft representative provided some further details in a statement to GameSpot. "Gesture controls for navigating the dashboard were removed to focus on fan-requested features resulting ...

Says Franklin: “When Microsoft released the Kinect for Windows SDK beta last year, I tried to write an app to recognize a simple gesture. It was way too complex. The SDK spits out a stream of joint ...

Apple tried but failed to control the technology behind Microsoft’s incredible gesture-recognizing Kinect controller, but if you wonder what might have been if they succeeded, keep your eyes on this ...

We know that Apple is interested in giving the Apple TV Kinect-like motion sensing abilities — they bought the 3D motion tracking company behind the tech last year, after all — but who knows when, if ...

Google Glass took smartglasses from the realm of pony-tailed academics and Silicon Valley dreamers to mainstream reality. It has dozens of apps. It has new designs from Oakley and Ray-Ban. It has fans ...

Microsoft may have some interesting new technology hiding up its sleeve. According to a report from the Verge, Microsoft plans to incorporate Kinect-like gestures into the interface of the upcoming ...