Microsoft (MSFT +1.69%) recently launched its second version of the Kinect, its motion capturing camera peripheral, for Windows PCs. The new device, which is technically identical to the Xbox One ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Using medical imaging and a Kinect camera, the device shows your true inner-self (complete with blood and guts), even as you move. The typical X-ray, printed out on a black-and-white slide, hasn’t ...

The core source code for Microsoft's Kinect technology is now available, but what does this mean for the medical industry? Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing device, which lets people use their body to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: For a while it looked like Microsoft's Xbox Kinect was the future of gaming. Debuting in ...

THE surgeon enters the operating theatre, covered in sterile blue scrubs. Machines beep and hiss. Nurses wait, tools at the ready: scalpel, forceps, bandage, Xbox… Xbox? On Tuesday last week, a ...

The Kinect has only been out for a few months and it has been used for a bunch of different purposes and even broke a Guinness World Record for sales. Now, Kinect can add another milestone to its ...

Although plenty of us are content with using the latest video game technology such as Microsoft’s Kinect to simulate flailing around in order to hit a virtual tennis ball, scientists are finding ...

Microsoft Kinect–based medical software startup Jintronix has won the $50,000 top prize at Montreal’s International Startup Festival. Jintronix, a finalist for Microsoft’s TechStars-based Kinect ...

At the end of last year, our research laboratory in Cambridge hosted a workshop on body tracking in healthcare. It was an occasion which celebrated the completion of a two-year collaboration with ...