Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming peripheral, but recognizing that a depth sensor is too cool to leave for dead, development continued even after Xbox gaming peripherals were ...

Thought you'd heard the last of the Kinect name? Nope. During Build 2018, Microsoft announced its upcoming Project Kinect, a new depth sensor to be utilized with HoloLens and Azure AI. While details ...

Microsoft announced its Azure Kinect camera modules alongside HoloLens 2 early in 2019. Both devices use the same mixed-reality camera module, using a time-of-flight depth sensor to map objects around ...

Kinect has been a product that Microsoft has been betting on and hyping for about a year and a half now, ever since revealing Project Natal at E3 2009. The motion sensing gaming peripheral is finally ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mixel ®, a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) announced today that Mixel’s MIPI ® IP has been successfully integrated into the Microsoft ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

Microsoft marketing claims depth sensing by time of flight for IR light. That's bogus, as it would require a sub-nanosecond light source and image sensor. Neither are currently affordable for a ...

The enterprising patent watchdogs over at Neogaf have unearthed two previously-undiscovered Sony patents—one, a sensor similar to Kinect, and the other, an add-on for next-gen consoles that would ...