One of the three "cameras" on the face of the Kinect is actually an IR projector, throwing out infrared light so the other (non-RGB) camera can get a sense of your room in 3D space. It's invisible to ...

Microsoft marketing claims depth sensing by time of flight for IR light. That's bogus, as it would require a sub-nanosecond light source and image sensor. Neither are currently affordable for a ...

Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360 has been out in the wild for 24 hours and what a bumpy ride it’s been so far. Before most stores had even opened their doors Wednesday morning there ...

Machine vision meets home entertainment in the Kinect sensor peripheral for Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Kinect puts the players in the game by eliminating the game controller altogether. Fabless ...

Now that a new patent has shown its face on the Internet, and we know that the Kinect is fully capable of recognizing sign language (which just opens so many doors, it's almost ridiculous), why don't ...

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Apple gave itself a monumental task with the iPhone X: shrink the technology used in Microsoft’s Kinect camera, to unlock people’s phones using only their faces. That decision could come back to bite, ...