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To appeal to families ready to graduate from the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Corp. wants to build on the success of the Wii's motion-capture wand -- by getting rid of the wand entirely. On Monday, ...

There's been some recent buzz about building Kinect motion controls into laptops, but judging from previous attempts, it's a bad idea. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan ...

"Minority Report"-like full-body controls aren't just for gaming. Kinect-like motion controls are making their way to PCs and televisions. At the annual Consumer Electronic Show taking place in Las ...

Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...

“Kinect Sports Rivals” is the follow-up to the Xbox 360’s “Kinect Sports.” The last generation version wasn’t really critically successful, but I really enjoyed the motion control gameplay. “Sports ...

Just a few days after the launch of Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing game system, hackers have broken the security behind it, according to a video released today. The video below shows that a hacker ...

If some of Microsoft’s top talent had their way, Kinect wouldn’t be totally controller-free. The Xbox 360’s Kinect is different from other motion control systems seen in the Nintendo Wii and the ...

PrimeSense has raised a round of private equity funding as part of its plan to expand its motion-control chips beyond Microsoft’s Kinect game console product. The funding comes from Silver Lake Sumeru ...

Microsoft is set to roll out voice control for TV sets connected to an Xbox 360 gaming console and Kinect controller. A free update for the Xbox 360 will be made available on Tuesday, bringing not ...

Come on, no one’s surprised that a developer went and cobbled together a game that lets you air-tweak virtual body parts with Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor, are they? It’s real and nearly here, ...

Anyone who’s ever stood in front of a Kinect-equipped Xbox knows the fun of virtual control, of using your hands to manipulate what you see on the screen without touching anything but air. The Leap ...