Here in Redmond this morning, Microsoft Research is marking its 20th anniversary as the company’s basic research unit. In addition to looking back at its work over the years, the… Read More
A patent awarded to Microsoft this morning, with Bill Gates listed as one of the inventors, will sound familiar to many users of the company’s Xbox 360 game console and… Read More
Is this a glimpse of the future of Kinect for Xbox 360 and Windows? During a Microsoft Research demo event with a handful of reporters earlier this year, there was… Read More
Fruit Ninja debuts this week for Microsoft’s Xbox Live — using the Kinect motion sensor to let gamers slice through bananas, pineapples and other varieties of fruit on screen. Yes,… Read More
You know you’re on to something in computer graphics when you get to explain in your research paper how you’ve advanced the state of the art beyond The Matrix: Reloaded and the Beowulf… Read More
The launch of Microsoft’s Avatar Kinect yesterday has provided a new form of creative expression to Xbox 360 users — letting them put their Xbox Live avatars in virtual settings… Read More
After a long wait, Microsoft today is releasing Avatar Kinect, the online video chat application for Xbox that uses the Kinect sensor to track facial expressions and mouth movements and… Read More
One of the projects recently used to demonstrate Microsoft’s new Kinect software development kit for Windows was a quadrocopter control system — allowing a small remote-controlled aircraft to be directed… Read More
As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a top company executive today provided a glimpse of one direction the initiative could take. Look… Read More
Microsoft is showing off a new online advertising technology today that one software executive says could “change television as we know it — forever.” Dubbed NUads, the offering allows users… Read More
In conjunction with its release of a Kinect software development kit for Windows 7 today, Microsoft held a “Code Camp” where it invited outside software developers and computer science students… Read More
Microsoft this morning officially brought its Kinect motion sensor to Windows PCs — releasing a software development kit that will let developers create noncommercial Windows 7 programs that can be… Read More
Ready to use your voice and hands to control your PC? How about a virtual orchestra or a flying quadrocopter? Microsoft Research this morning is officially expanding the Kinect motion… Read More
Skype this afternoon announced a partnership with Comcast to bring video calls to more television sets — signaling that it isn’t standing still while it waits for its acquisition by… Read More
One of the E3 leaks from Microsoft’s website this morning was a new Star Wars game for the Kinect motion-sensor, and a teaser video is already available on YouTube. Watch… Read More
Halo 4 is “on the way.” That’s the (inadvertently) official word from Microsoft this morning. The company isn’t taking the stage at the E3 video-game convention for another half-hour, but its… Read More
Next week is the big E3 video-game convention, and Microsoft’s Xbox team this morning kicked off the competitive jockeying by releasing a new slate of statistics to demonstrate the momentum… Read More
Update: It’s official: Microsoft adds new ‘Skype Division’ in $8.5 billion deal Microsoft’s blockbuster agreement to acquire Skype is all but assured now, with multiple reports citing a purchase price… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox, Office and Windows Server businesses helped the company overcome a down quarter for the Windows PC market. The company just posted revenue of $16.43 billion for the quarter… Read More
In the process of announcing its latest financial results this morning, Nintendo confirmed that it plans to release the successor to its hit Wii game console in 2012, after previewing… Read More
An official Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer is released featuring slick CG apes, courtesy of Weta Digital (Avatar). John Lithgow is on-board, but Harry and the other… Read More
Get ready for a new wave of Kinect applications on Windows PCs. One of Microsoft’s goals at its MIX conference in Las Vegas this week is to get outside software… Read More
Nordstrom’s flagship store in downtown Seattle is currently featuring a neat little technological trick, allowing passersby to write and doodle on one of its display windows by moving their hands… Read More
Microsoft sold 535,000 Xbox 360s in the United States in February, the biggest month in the console’s history outside of the peak holiday shopping season. The Redmond company released the… Read More
Microsoft plans to soon release a software development kit allowing hobbyists and academics to build applications for its Kinect motion sensor on Windows 7 machines. But many developers aren’t waiting… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced that the Kinect motion sensor for Xbox 360 has surpassed 10 million units shipped since its Nov. 3 release. Actually, the company said “sold,” but to… Read More
