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Kinect for Windows to be updated for Windows 8 on October 8
Microsoft has announced via its Kinect for Windows Roadmap that support for the Windows-targeted variant of the extremely popular camera/sensor device will receive official support for use on Windows...
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Verizon patents technology to observe you while you watch TV
Privacy advocates are gonna love Verizon after this one. The company has filed a patent application for a set-top box that is similarly equipped as Microsoft’s Kinect — cameras, microphones and motion...
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Google I/O attendess will get to try Map Diving, an immersive skydiving...
Google I/O is fast approaching (next week!), and some details of what’s gonna be at the conference are now trickling out. We now have heard that there will be… skydiving in Google Maps? Developed in...
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The Leap Motion makes Windows 8 look… awesome [Video]
The Leap Motion controller is supposed to change the way we use computers. After seeing this video of the Leap controlling Windows 8, I’m starting to believe them: Microsoft designed Windows 8 to be...
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Microsoft’s next-generation Kinect motion sensor is coming to Windows PCs...
When Microsoft unveiled its next-generation video game console, the Xbox One, they announced that every system would come with the next version of its Kinect sensor. In fact, the Xbox One requires the...
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This is what happens when Xbox One becomes HAL 9000 [Video]
When the Xbox One was announced last month, the fear that Microsoft instilled on every gamer’s mind was the idea that used games would become a thing of the past. It also raised privacy concerns due...
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Xbox One needs to connect to the internet every 24 hours, used games can only...
After basically keeping us all in the dark on the finer details of how the new Xbox One will work since its announcement, Microsoft has finally shed some light on the issue. Today the company released...
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Researchers in North Carolina control cockroaches with Microsoft’s Kinect
A group of researchers in North Carolina State University have developed an electronic interface that they can use to remotely control cockroaches. To make things just a little more bizarre, they’re...
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Xbox One’s Kinect will be used for advertising
Kinect is the secret weapon of the Xbox One game console from Microsoft; if the camera fails, the software giant can count its prospects of owning the living room good bye. While the camera is mainly...
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Video shows the microphone for Moto X is always on, always listening
The upcoming Android Moto X smartphone will come packed with a feature similar to Microsoft’s Kinect where the mic is constantly listening for any form of voice requests, according to a leaked video....
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Microsoft Kinect can help deaf people use sign language on the computer,...
When Microsoft releases the Xbox One this November, it’ll come packaged with the next-generation of the Kinect sensor. It’ll be more accurate than ever and do things that weren’t even possible on the...
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Microsoft changes its mind again, Xbox One will now work without Kinect
Xbox executive Marc Whitten says that the Xbox One will not require the Kinect to be plugged in for the console to function. When Microsoft first unveiled the Xbox One, one of the things people took...
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Windows Kinect app turns any surface into a touch screen
It seems like everything around us is getting smarter now. Honestly, who would have thought we would have glasses and watches that are equally powerful as our computers. Ok, that’s an overstatement...
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Manga generator scans you into your own comic book
Do you enjoy Japanese manga (aka comics)? If you could, would you create one by yourself? Well, if the answer to both questions is yes, then you are in luck. The developers at the Shirai Lab at the...
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Kinect for Xbox One can detect two people talking at the same time
Say what you will about Microsoft’s Kinect 2 for the Xbox One, you just can’t deny that this thing is an awesome piece of tech. We’ve seen the demos of it in action and we’ve read the hands-on...
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Google to abandon Google TV in favor of Android TV, according to report
We haven’t heard much of Google TV in quite a while. But that doesn’t mean the search giant has put an end to it, in fact, Google might just rename it to Android TV. According to a Gigaom report, …
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Microsoft says “should not expect any level of privacy” when talking to...
Microsoft recently updated its privacy policy for the Xbox One and the Kinect camera. The new policy outlines how the company handles your data collected by the Kinect and the Xbox One’s DVR feature....
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British spy agency wanted to spy on people using Kinect
British surveillance agency, GCHQ, loves to see people in the nude. Seriously they do; recently it was reported that the agency collected nude images of people over Yahoo chat via webcam with a...
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