Microsoft Kinect is not racist

PCMAG.com http://sn.im/Kinect1 Despite what you may have read, it turns out that the Kinect — and Microsoft by extension — doesn't favor one race over another. Tech journalists just like to write sensational headlines sometimes. One of ...

Message posted on the November 6th, 2010 - 10:00 AM ET

Critical Mass Uses Kinect for Windows to Give Chicago Auto Show Attendees a First-Hand Experience of the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder Concept

Innovative First Person Pathfinder Experience by Critical Mass and IdentityMine Responds to Human Gestures with One of the First Commercial Uses of Kinect for Windows SDK.

Press published on the February 9th, 2012 - 4:28 PM ET

Fruit Ninja Kinect™ Bringing Frantic Fruit Slicing Madness to Xbox LIVE® Arcade

Halfbrick Announces Full Motion-Controlled Fruit Ninja Kinect, Joining the Best of the Industry in Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade on the Xbox LIVE Arcade.

Press published on the June 6th, 2011 - 6:26 PM ET

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Brings the Wizarding World to Life Like Never Before with Harry Potter™ for Kinect™

Coming this Fall, You are Invited to Attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry through this Exclusive Game on Kinect.

Press published on the May 25th, 2012 - 8:00 AM ET

Kinect: Microsoft announces an SDK for Windows

Next Spring, Microsoft will make a Kinect for Windows development kit available. This will be a free SDK, although a commercial version will also be released at a later date.

News published on the February 22nd, 2011 - 9:20 AM ET

FIRST ® Adds Kinect for Xbox 360 Technology to High-School Robotics Competition Tool Kit for 2012

Kinect for Xbox 360 to be used with Robots in Autonomous Mode, allowing students to “be the robot”.

Press published on the October 7th, 2011 - 11:39 AM ET

Kinect for Windows on sale the 1st of February

Microsoft will make the Kinect for Windows available in numerous countries from the 1st of February.

News published on the January 10th, 2012 - 9:10 AM ET

Microsoft: Kinect SDK for Windows

As promised, Microsoft has made a Kinect development kit compatible with Windows 7 available.

News published on the June 20th, 2011 - 9:10 AM ET

On using the name Kinect, and fetching a binary firmware

Hi, I put together all the pieces needed to enable audio input (with pulseaudio) from the Microsoft Kinect[1] sensor device on GNU/Linux systems, I called the project kinect-audio-setup[2]. Before proposing its inclusion in Debian I'd like to ...

Message posted on the September 30th, 2011 - 6:20 AM ET

Microsoft showing strong Kinect sales, right after Black Friday

http://123kinect.com/kinect-black-friday-sales/ "Microsoft just released a press release in which they announced that they surpassed 2.5 million Kinect Sensors sold! A great achievement in terms of Kinect Sales by Microsoft so close after ...

Message posted on the December 1st, 2010 - 12:57 PM ET

Google's Matt Cutts Issues New $2,000 Kinect Bounty

This is all getting to be a game isn't it? "Who can upset Microsoft most"? :-) "Google's own Matt Cutts has jumped into the bounty game with an offer of his own, promising two $1,000 rewards for, "the person or team that writes ...

Message posted on the November 15th, 2010 - 2:17 PM ET

Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers

<Quote> A $2,000 bounty is being offered to the first developer who creates an open source driver for the Kinect, despite the proposal meeting with Microsoft's staunch disapproval. The original bounty was $1,000, offered by Adafruit ...

Message posted on the November 6th, 2010 - 2:56 PM ET

Which Is The Only Platform With Properly Working Kinect Support?

We all know Windows isn’t up to it. But now it appears even the platform that Microsoft originally designed the Kinect for, namely the Xbox, is having troubles with it! ...

Message posted on the March 1st, 2011 - 3:28 AM ET

Microsoft doing "damage control" after Kinect racism accusation

Kinect only for white people? [quote] Employees from a Best Buy said that the system seemed to have a harder time detecting the employees with darker skin complexions, according to DRS Tech News and Reviews. Many users have been arguing on whether ...

Message posted on the December 4th, 2010 - 11:07 AM ET