Starting this spring, people who own an Xbox 360 and a Kinect sensor will be able to use avatars to talk to each other in a variety of virtual worlds, with their avatars not only mimicking their ...

Microsoft's Kinect has been a runaway success, selling 8 million units worldwide since launch. At CES, the company announced its next step in taking over your living room in strange and interesting ...

Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages.

In an update to their blog today, Microsoft let loose news about a feature that most people did not know that Kinect had, video chatting. Yes, if you have a Kinect, and your buddy has a Kinect, you ...

The world has known that Microsoft was bringing a motion control system to market for months and months now. We've heard it referred to as "Project Natal" for as long as we can remember, and we were ...

Microsoft said yesterday that Kinect is to act as a bridge between "the boardroom and the living room," and will have its software upgraded to allow it to work with the company's new business-aimed ...

Some of us at Joystiq have had Kinect units in our living rooms for a week or so now and, as you read in our review, Kinect can be especially sensitive about your interior decorating. Couch too close ...

You knew it was coming, right? Hot on the heels of getting leaked a wee bit early Microsoft has made official the rebadging of a device desperately seeking a new name: "Project Natal" is no more, ...

At E3, Nyko has unveiled its new wares for gamers, which includes a new ‘Zoom for Kinect,’ a lens device that attaches to the front of your Kinect sensor. Designed and created to allow interactive ...

Last Christmas my kids really wanted to get the Kinect for the Xbox 360 and that Kinectimals game. I realized right away that the way the room was arranged where we kept the gaming system there wasn't ...

This week the folks at Microsoft have let it be known that their next-generation console will be going by the name Xbox One, and with it will be coming Skype video chat for the living room. This ...

Oliver Kreylos, one of the many Kinect hackers, first managed to connect two Kinects together and calibrate them in a way to combine their two data streams into one continual video of a particular ...