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 ...

After getting discontinued in the Fall of 2017, the Microsoft Kinect is back, but not for gaming. Project Kinect for Azure is a version of the pioneering camera/sensor array, designed for businesses.

Kinect was the coolest gadget Microsoft made that no one actually used, but now the company is bringing it back with an all new focus: AI and the cloud. At its Build conference today, Microsoft ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Kinect originally debuted as an Xbox 360 accessory for motion sensing so you could ...

While HoloLens 2 is undoubtedly the aspirational star of Microsoft’s augmented-reality (AR) offerings, the company isn’t putting all its eggs in that particular basket. Alongside the new HoloLens ...

Microsoft will no longer make the Azure Kinect Developer Kit. Microsoft will no longer make the Azure Kinect Developer Kit. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday unveiled a fourth-generation version of the company's discontinued Kinect motion-sensing device, which was originally designed for gaming but is being repurposed ...

It was never the gaming revolution Microsoft thought it’d be, but Kinect found some utility in the business world Microsoft Xbox It finally happened. Microsoft has fully ended production of Kinect ...

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to stop offering its Azure Kinect Developer Kit, although it will still license its depth-sensing camera technology to partners. The Azure Kinect ...

At its event at Mobile World Congress today, Microsoft announced HoloLens 2, but alongside that is Azure Kinect. Originally called Project Kinect for Azure, which was announced at Build last year, you ...

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, ...

What just happened? Microsoft's Kinect device is no longer being produced. You might think that this happened years ago, and you'd be right. The version being killed ...