Latest Xbox Kinect News

Researchers at Microsoft’s R&D labs are keen on making the Kinect the ultimate in being able to understand the human condition through its sight and hearing. And so the next generation may actually be able to read your body language and hear changes in the tone of your voice. ...

For April Fools, there was a video out that showed what Skyrim might look like if Bethesda added full body tracking to the game, with some painful results. And we all laughed at what was the fake trailer for that. But you want to know something? ...

This edition we have bad news for Gears of War fans that were hoping to play on the Kinect, a composer uses the sensor to play music on a pipe organ and could the Kinect track your tongue? All of these are below, so we invite you to read on… ...

Just in time for the Easter weekend, the Kinect is back ablaze with new titles and some updates to old ones, in what was one of the busiest that we’ve seen in awhile.

The first of course, is Kinect Star Wars, which has had a rocky development process full of delays. And in that time, we’ve picked on some of its more infamous portions like the Rancor Stomping and the Galactic Dance Off, but still we were looking forward to it. ...

A while back, Microsoft asked individuals and companies to submit ideas about ways the Kinect could be used to make the world a better place and 500+ responded to the call. But the company only had slots for eleven (originally ten) of them and they have now announced the winners. And what an interesting slate ...

Mass Effect 3, which is one of the most popular franchises around, as you know, now has Kinect voice commands, but according to Bioware, that wasn’t the original plan.

In fact, they had no thought about putting Kinect into the game at all. That is until one of their developers was sitting there with the sensor and just playing around as engineers are prone to do while brainstorming new ideas. ...