Kinect for Windows Product Blog
Can Kinect improve customer relationship management?
Kevin Hughes thinks it can—and we agree. A technical solution professional on the Microsoft Dynamics...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 06/03/2015
"Fortissimo," via Kinect
Fortissimo, via Kinect On May 1, the Seattle Symphony presented the world premiere of Above, Below,...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 05/28/2015
Kinect sensor helps facilitate learning
We all know that children can learn from videos. But many educators have questioned the...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 05/22/2015
Sick children get a dose of Kinect-enabled empowerment
A seriously ill child is every family’s nightmare. So it’s no wonder that young patients and their...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 05/15/2015
Retail signage gets smart
The following blog was guest-authored by Justin Miller, an account manager for digital media and...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 05/13/2015
Australian study looks at the use of technology in rehabilitating brain-injured patents
A research team with members from seven major Australian hospitals and universities is evaluating...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 05/06/2015
RoomAlive Toolkit unveiled at Build 2015
As highlighted during the Build 2015 Conference, Microsoft is more committed than ever to delivering...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 04/30/2015
Can Kinect technology improve brain imaging?
Blurry images: they’re a nuisance when they wreck your holiday photographs or ruin that video of...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 04/22/2015
Kinect for Windows shows promise in helping seniors retain cognitive functions
Declines in cognitive function are among the most debilitating problems that affect senior citizens....
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 04/17/2015
Learn to build Kinect apps for the Windows Store
As we discussed in a recent blog, the Kinect v2 sensor and SDK 2.0 enables developers to create...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 04/10/2015
Kinetisense brings objectivity to range of motion therapy
“Jane” had a problem: a so-called frozen shoulder, which made it painful to use her left arm. The...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 04/03/2015
Microsoft to consolidate the Kinect for Windows experience around a single sensor
At Microsoft, we are committed to providing more personal computing experiences. To support this, we...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 04/02/2015
GesturePak v2 simplifies creation of gesture-controlled apps
What do you do after you’ve built a great app? You make it even better. That’s exactly what Carl...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 04/01/2015
Kinect gets artistic
While we’ve always thought that Kinect for Windows was a work of art, figuratively speaking, we are...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 03/25/2015
Kinect comes to the aid of golfers
Virtual golfers may be eagerly anticipating the upcoming EA Sports PGA Tour for Xbox One, which is...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 03/20/2015
Windows Store provides new market for Kinect apps
In case you hadn't noticed, the Windows Store added something really special to its line-up not too...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 03/18/2015
Using Kinect to monitor Parkinson’s patients
Swedish neurologists and software developers have teamed up to create a potentially groundbreaking...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 03/13/2015
Kinect-powered experiences bring people together
The following blog was guest authored by Kyle Banuelos, co-founder of Stublisher Inc., a startup...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 03/06/2015
Helping doctors focus on what matters
We’ve grown accustomed to seeing the Kinect sensor put to amazing uses in...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 03/04/2015
No bones about it: Kinect for Windows v2 skeletal tracking vastly better
You can read about the improvements that Kinect for Windows v2 offers over its predecessor, but...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 02/27/2015
This nurse makes house calls, thanks to Kinect for Windows
Telemedicine has become one of the hot trends in healthcare, with more and more patients and doctors...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 02/25/2015
Dancing the night away with Kinect v2
Visitors to Seattle’s 2014 Decibel Festival expected the avant-garde. After all, this four-day...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 02/20/2015
Working the angles…with Kinect
Angles are all around us: the hands of a clock, the blades of a pair of scissors, the corner of a...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 02/18/2015
Kinect powers cost-effective stroke therapy
Imagine how your life would change if you couldn’t easily move the arm and hand on one side of...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 02/11/2015
Kinect-powered kiosk enlisted in fight against Ebola
Kinect’s gesture-enabled interactions can be entertaining (think games), profitable (think...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 02/05/2015
Graffiti experience pulls in shoppers
The following blog was guest authored by Dr. Neil Roodyn, a Microsoft MVP and the founder and...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 01/29/2015
Kinect-enabled solutions offer insights on retail customers
If you wanted to see the latest, most innovative technology for retailers, the 2015 National Retail...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 01/26/2015
Original Kinect for Windows sensor sales to end in 2015
In October, we shipped the public release of the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor and its software...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 12/30/2014
The magic of Christmas, Kinect style
Every December, British shoppers look forward to the creative holiday ad campaign from John Lewis, a...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 12/19/2014
Intel-GE Care Innovations uses Kinect solution to help elderly patients
“I’ve fallen … and I can’t get up.” That line, from a low-budget...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 12/04/2014
Re-imagining banking with Kinect for Windows
Someday, people might reminisce about the days when ATMs were the state of the art in offsite...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 11/05/2014
Big day for Kinect developers
Today, we're extremely excited to announce some major news about Kinect: The full release of the...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 10/22/2014
Newly released: update to SDK 2.0 public preview
Today we released another update to the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 public preview. This release...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 09/17/2014
V2 meets 3D
As Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) James Ashley points out in a recent blog, it’s a...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 08/22/2014
Updated preview SDK now available
Today, we are releasing an updated version of the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 public preview. This...
Author: Kinect for Windows Team Date: 08/21/2014