Microsoft has yet to provide an exact launch date, but it will allow companies to use Kinect for commercial purposes starting sometime in early 2012. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

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Oregon State University student Alex Wiggins gestures to Kinect, which in turn makes a remote-control toy helicopter take off while teammates Ruma Paul (left) and Fabio Matsui (right) look on. The ...

As we reported yesterday, Microsoft has today released their new Kinect for Windows SDK, allowing developers to design and create new Kinect applications and projects, building applications with C++, ...

Now that Kinect for Windows 2.0 devices have shipped, a preview of the software development kit is available for more than game developers. The Kinect for Windows team released a preview of its Kinect ...

The Kinect software development kit (SDK) beta was released by Microsoft today, enabling developers to create Visual Basic, Windows 7 C#,and C++ applications that recognize user input through the Xbox ...

When Windows developers get their hands on the code for the motion-sensing system, we could see gesture touch everything from Office applications to computer monitors. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer ...

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Fresh on the heels of its envisioned future video, Microsoft has posted an inspiring portrayal of the Kinect to YouTube. The video outlines the somewhat unexpected uses of Kinect in its one-year ...

Microsoft has announced the release of the first beta version of the Kinect SDK (Software Development Kit). This SDK allows developers (or at least hobbyists and academics (the tools to create and ...

To mark the one-year anniversary of the Kinect launch, Microsoft is releasing version 2 of the Kinect for Windows beta SDK. To mark the one-year anniversary of the Kinect launch, Microsoft is ...

REDMOND, Wash. — June 16, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) from Microsoft Research, a free beta release for noncommercial ...