Neowin News Feed for: Kinect

Who cares if the Xbox One is spying on you?

Christopher White — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:09:41 +0100

Everyone on the Internet is saying that Big Brother is going to be watching you while you play your Xbox One. With all of the other surveillance and tracking going on in the world, why should we care? Read more...

E3 2013: Microsoft shows us some Xbox One cloud and Kinect demos

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:44:55 +0100

At a behind closed doors session during E3 2013, Microsoft showed us some demos of how the Xbox One console will handle cloud-based data, along with a look at its Kinect technology. Read more...

E3 2013: We get some time with Xbox One's Kinect

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:01:25 +0100

We tried a live demo at E3 2013 of how the more advanced Kinect hardware included with Microsoft's Xbox One game console works, including how it can measure your heart rate. Read more...

Microsoft: Xbox One owners are in control of Kinect privacy settings

John Callaham — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 01:52:24 +0100

Microsoft has posted word that owners of the upcoming Xbox One game console will have control of its privacy settings, including how much info its Kinect sensor gathers. Read more...

Microsoft reveals more on its 'liquid black' design for Xbox One

John Callaham — Thu, 30 May 2013 18:27:07 +0100

In a new blog post and video, Microsoft offers more detail on the design decisions behind the upcoming Xbox One game console, along with the Kinect sensor and the controller. Read more...

Microsoft: Xbox One's Kinect to have privacy options

John Callaham — Tue, 28 May 2013 19:03:11 +0100

Microsoft claims that owners of the upcoming Xbox One game console will be able to set privacy restrictions on its Kinect sensor and that the entire system can be shut off completely. Read more...

Microsoft: Xbox One part of its future 'Home 2.0' plans

John Callaham — Mon, 27 May 2013 09:48:30 +0100

Microsoft is developing the Xbox One game console as a central part of an overall long term plan, which is informally called 'Home 2.0', that offers a vision of a future with home automation. Read more...

Microsoft could add Xbox Live Achievements for watching TV shows

John Callaham — Sun, 26 May 2013 00:25:33 +0100

Microsoft has filed for a patent that suggest the company is working on a way to put in Xbox Live Achievements for things other than games, such as watching TV shows. Read more...

Will Xbox One talk back to you and let you play games remotely?

John Callaham — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:59:35 +0100

A new article claims, via unnamed sources, that Microsoft is working to add a way for the Xbox One to talk back to its owners and allow people to play games remotely. Read more...

New Kinect for Windows hardware coming in 2014

John Callaham — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:51:14 +0100

Microsoft has revealed more information about the next hardware version of Kinect for Windows, which will be shown at BUILD 2013 and will be released sometime in 2014. Read more...

Xbox One information round-up

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:27:26 +0100

Struggling to keep up with all the news surrounding the newly announced Xbox One console? Check out this handy dot-point list for all the information you need on Microsoft's next-gen system Read more...

Microsoft bringing the new Kinect to Windows

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:46:46 +0100

Kinect program manager Scott Evans has stated that Microsoft will be bringing the second generation Kinect to PC, although they aren't ready to share any further information about their plans Read more...

Microsoft announces next generation Kinect for Xbox One

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:13:42 +0100

Microsoft has just announced their brand new next-gen Kinect. This is an updated version of the popular Xbox add-on that will allow users to interact with the console via voice or movement. Read more...

From Xbox 360 to next Xbox, Microsoft has launched lots of products in between

John Callaham — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:51:49 +0100

Microsoft announced the current Xbox 360 console just over eight years ago. Between that day and today's next Xbox reveal, the company has released a ton of new products in other divisions. Read more...

Capri 3D sensor shown off at I/O, brings Kinect to tablets

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:10:25 +0100

PrimeSense, the company behind the Kinect sensor, have demonstrated a similar sensor designed for tablets that can capture 3D maps of areas and objects, and it's one tenth the size of the Kinect Read more...

Microsoft forms team to help third parties enter "geek heaven"

John Callaham — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:12:15 +0100

Microsoft has formed a new "deep-tech" team inside its Developer and Platform Evangelism division that has the goal of attracting new third party next-gen apps to Microsoft platforms. Read more...

A mouse or a face? New Kinect project presents FaceMouse

John Callaham — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:20:58 +0100

A recent software project using Microsoft's Kinect for Windows SDK has come up with FaceMouse, which allows users to have their facial movements replicated as PC mouse movements. Read more...

Scrapped 'Microsoft Zoo' shows company's family-friendly emphasis existed before Kinect

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:21:54 +0100

Microsoft scrapped a family-friendly game prior to the launch of Kinect, possibly hinting that the company was planning on a greater emphasis on that demographic with or without Kinect. Read more...

Kinect for Windows SDK 1.7 now available for download

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:29:15 +0000

Microsoft has released the newest SDK, version 1.7, for its Kinect for Windows developers, which adds the much anticipated Kinect Fusion 3D modeling functionality and other useful features. Read more...

Microsoft Research pushes mobile payments to the creepy edge with Zero Effort Payment

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:19:32 +0000

Microsoft Research is testing a mobile payment method that takes a new different approach. It combines Bluetooth and Kinect for facial recognition and the customer doesn't have to do anything. Read more...