Latest Xbox Kinect News

Coming in just over a week, Kinect for Windows, Microsoft hopes, will create a firestorm of original ideas and concepts that will drive a whole new market for them. After all, uses for the Kinect even before this official version have been widespread in the PC market thanks to reverse engineered open source drivers. ...

One of the biggest sellers in the gaming world is the Mass Effect franchise and at E3 we were mesmerized to hear how the Kinect was going to enhance the experience. Well, it’s not as comprehensive as actually tromping through the alien landscape in your living room, but it does add some convenient voice commands that keep you engrossed in the game as if you were actually there. ...

Today we have news that Kinect Star Wars may be in 3D, Double Fine is coming out with a new fun game, Dance Central 2 gets some a new downloadable hip hop song, and people are not really happy with the $250 pricetag on the Kinect for Windows.

You’ve probably heard by now that Star Wars is being re-released in 3D, well at least Phantom Menace for now, and then depending on how that goes, the rest. And you probably have heard that Kinect Star Wars has also been delayed. What do the two have in common? ...

Feeling the push from other developers that are creating similar technologies, Microsoft is releasing the Kinect for Windows on February 1, 2012, earlier than many expected. ...

Now that Star Wars: The Old Republic has begun its early access, motion gaming fans are wondering where the much ballyhooed Kinect Star Wars is. Well, the latest rumor out that Microsoft will not confirm or deny is that we are looking at April at this point. The game, along with the Xbox 360 Star Wars bundle, was delayed from its previous released time of Christmas 2011, right about now actually. ...

We haven’t checked out the hacker scene in a bit, so we thought we’d see what’s up in the world of the science in this edition of cool uses.

Just about every movie or TV show of the future has a robotic butler or maid that serves the family (hopefully without killing them). Whether it was Rosie from Jetsons or those creepy guys from iRobot, the idea of having a mechanical man there to cook your breakfast and clean up after that long party while you sleep is very appealing. We haven’t quite got to that point yet, but thanks to the Kinect, researchers are one step closer to that goal. ...