When the Kinect first launched last November, gamers were (to put it charitably) a bit skeptical. Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and the most impressive game that came out ...

In the realm of 3D rendering and animation software 3ds Max is one that’s been around for what seems like forever and I know 3D artists who swear by it. So, when I came across a video showing how a ...

The global hacking community has already done an admirable job of exploiting the technology inside Kinect, but now would-be motion control designers can get the tech straight from the source.

The internet has been all a flutter recently with stories of resourceful individuals finding new and unusual uses for Microsoft's Kinect peripheral, ranging from autonomous robots to motion tracked ...

Kinect sensor tech firm PrimeSense has released open-source drivers for the peripheral, and established an NI devices, applications and middleware organisation. The open-source OpenNI Framework ...

The Kinect, hit-or-miss as it may be when it comes to actual gaming, has certainly inspired the community. Everything from multi-touch surfaces to feeling up a virtual lady has been created, in just ...

[John B] is a software engineer and had some spare time on his hands, so he started messing around with his Kinect which had been sitting unused for awhile. He wanted to see what he could create if he ...

At CES, we met with PrimeSense, the company that created the sensor for Microsoft’s Kinect add-on. While Kinect is made for gaming, a number of owners created homebrew applications. I asked Adi ...