"For the future, the big question mark is really AI," says former Microsoft vice president of game publishing, Ed Fries. "There's obvious advantages where AI is going to make building games faster and ...
For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...
GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, ...
The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...
Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...
Anyone remember Xbox Kinect? It was this strange-looking motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, and later Xbox One, which used a camera to track the gamer's movements. First unveiled at E3 2009 ...
Billy Tolley swings a Microsoft Kinect around an abandoned room in sudden, jittery movements. “Whoa!” he says. “Dude, it was so creepy.” On the display, we see an anomaly of arrows, spheres, and red ...
Experiments on Google's 67-qubit Sycamore processor showed operations entering a new "weak noise phase" in which calculations were complex enough to outperform supercomputers, based on benchmark ...
I connect two or three Kinects to USB3.0 ports of my PC. When I connect one Kinect, the frame rate is 30fps, but when I connect two Kinects, the frame rate drops to 15fps and when connecting three ...
Kinect occupies a strange place in the tech world. It’s a nearly universally beloved piece of technology that was both ahead of its time and very much of its time, all at once. It felt — for a moment ...
Microsoft will no longer make the Azure Kinect Developer Kit. Microsoft will no longer make the Azure Kinect Developer Kit. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...
Following the release of the fully integrated Femto Mega, which features an NVIDIA Jetson Nano module and the same ToF technology, the Femto Bolt offers a broader choice of hosts. Additionally, Orbbec ...