Oregon State University student Alex Wiggins gestures to Kinect, which in turn makes a remote-control toy helicopter take off while teammates Ruma Paul (left) and Fabio Matsui (right) look on. The ...

The Kinect software development kit (SDK) beta was released by Microsoft today, enabling developers to create Visual Basic, Windows 7 C#,and C++ applications that recognize user input through the Xbox ...

Get ready for a new wave of Kinect applications on Windows PCs. One of Microsoft’s goals at its MIX conference in Las Vegas this week is to get outside software developers dreaming up new ways to use ...

The Xbox Kinect is Microsoft's big push into motion-controlled gaming. You don't even need a controller to play. Just move your hands and feet with gestures that the Kinect understands, and -- voilà! ...

The Kinect for Windows SDK includes drivers for Windows 7, Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows 8 developer preview desktop apps. Developers have a new platform on which to build for Kinect games: ...

Now that Kinect for Windows 2.0 devices have shipped, a preview of the software development kit is available for more than game developers. The Kinect for Windows team released a preview of its Kinect ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft have announced that they will be releasing a non-commercial version of the software ...

Microsoft has announced that it will launch an SDK for its Kinect motion sensor for Windows, and Microsoft will be releasing the SDK free of charge for non-commercial use, and will later release a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Soon after the Kinect hit the market last November, academics and hobbyists began to experiment with it. Using open-source drivers on Windows-based ...

Microsoft is looking to gain developers to create apps for its platforms, namely Kinect and Windows Phone 7. Kinect already has a large developer base but they didn’t have an official SDK to ...

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Microsoft has yet to provide an exact launch date, but it will allow companies to use Kinect for commercial purposes starting sometime in early 2012. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...