Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. SEE MORE by Todd Bishop on May 17, 2012 at 5:18 pm July 19, 2026 at 9:16 am It’s a familiar scene in the startup world — an open floor plan ...

In a conference center room on Microsoft’s Redmond campus Thursday, a slim, bespectacled CEO clad in a white lab coat was waving his arms wildly. Behind him, on a flat screen, a cartoon blackbird ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Microsoft really wants to see what startups can do with their motion-based Kinect camera. Selling 8 million in 60 days wasn't enough, and Microsoft sees ...

Microsoft on Friday announced a program designed to help ten developers or startups launch businesses around products for Kinect, the controller that senses motion and voice. Developers with Kinect ...

(Phys.org) —Microsoft has announced at its Build Development Event and via its website a new initiative the company is calling the Kinect for Windows developer kit program. The idea is to entice ...

Microsoft announced the Kinect Accelerator program today, a three-month incubation program to develop new Kinect-enabled Windows and Xbox 360 applications. The company is now accepting applications, ...

The new Kinect bundled with Xbox One won't be exclusive to that platform, Shacknews has learned. According to Kinect program manager Scott Evans, Microsoft plans on bringing the new Kinect to PC. "We ...

[programing4fun] has been playing around with his Kinect-based 3D display and building a holographic WALL-E controllable with a Windows phone. It’s a ‘kid safe’ version of his Terminator personal ...

Microsoft has launched the Kinect for Windows commercial license program. The sensor features the latest Microsoft Speech components such as: “near mode” which sees objects as close as 40 centimeters ...

Today’s Xbox Scorpio hardware specs reveal continues to erode Microsoft’s insistence that Kinect is an important part of the Xbox ecosystem. Like the Xbox One S before it, Scorpio is losing the ...

In a conference center room on Microsoft's Redmond campus last week, a slim, bespectacled CEO clad in a white lab coat was waving his arms wildly. Behind him, on a flat screen, a cartoon blackbird ...