Microsoft Kinect

MIT researchers used a $150 Microsoft Kinect to 3D scan a giant T. rex skull

MIT's Camera Culture group has been able to successfully capture a high-resolution 3D scan of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull using about $150 worth of equipment and some free software. The skull, which bel

Digital data and the fine line between you and your government

What if the government decided they wanted to see what your device could see and hear? Or gain real-time access to the easily digitized information that surrounds a growing crop of connected devices?

Occipital Releases One Of The First High Quality 3D Scanners For OS X

While Windows 3D scanning software has until now outperformed any Apple counterpart, Occipital Inc. plans to remedy that today with the launch of Skanect for OS X. Originally developed by France-based

Nyko Zoom For Kinect Shipping August 23

If you’ve been watching for the Nyko Zoom for Kinect, the space-shrinking lens system that allows you to use the Kinect in a smaller room, you only have a little over two months to go. The kit w

Play Tetris Through The Kinect

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kinect.jpg">This <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/01/play-tetris-via-the-kinect/">isn't</a> the first Kinect Tetris hack out th

Wingardium Leviosa: This Rotocopter Is Controlled By The Kinect

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/0.jpeg">This project is part of a bachelor's thesis by Armin Ambühl and involves a quadrocopter, a Kinect sensor, and what I assume is d

Microsoft Launches Kinect SDK For Windows

Microsoft has just announced a new SDK for Windows that allows programmers to take input from the Kinect and use it in their homebrew projects. This will allow users to create games, UIs, and apps wit

Rez Creator Mizuguchi: Bring On The 3D And Crazy Control Methods

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/beauty_area1_1-620x348.jpg" />At <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/e3-2011/">E3</a>, while checking out both the <a href="http://www

Japanese Robot Geek Dances Rumba With A Roomba (Video)

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Picture-22.png" /> We have shown you quite a few obscure <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/kinect">Kinect</a> videos in the last fe

Nyko Zoom Makes Your Kinect Work In Small Rooms

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Xbox_Zoom_product_new.jpeg">The Nyko Zoom is a great idea. It's basically a lens set that sits over your <a HREF="http://crunchgear.com/t

Nyko Shows Off Its Kinect And 3DS Accessories For E3

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/zoomy.jpg" />Want to experience the joy of <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/kinect/">Kinect</a>, but happen to have a small living

Microsoft Finally Announces Serious Kinect Games For Serious Gamers — Star Wars, Mass Effect 3, Even Minecraft

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kinect_star_wars.png">Alright, finally. Microsoft released the Kinect last year with games that turned out to be to nothing more than vir

Kinect Fun Labs: Try Out Crazy Kinect Experiments

Kinect Fun Labs is a demo system for new Kinect technologies. For example, a new system called Kinect Me creates an avatar that looks just like you. You capture your face and hair and clothing and the

Halo 4, Kinect Star Wars, Dance Central 2 (And More) Outed In Xbox Website Slip-Up

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Picture-2.png" />A couple of the team are in line at the <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/14/that-just-happened-a-survivor-of-t

Your Nightmares Have Arrived: Kinect-Driven Powerpoint

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/arts-kinect-move-584.jpg">While I can't imagine anyone would want to perform the feats demonstrated in this video, what you're seeing is

Kinect Hack Could Eventually Translate Sign Language

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/desole.jpg" />Some French hackers have put together a program that uses the <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/kinect/">Kinect </a>to

GameRunner Gaming Treadmill Now Available For Pre-Order, Fools Can Part With Their Money For $495

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/05.jpeg">It is rare to find a gaming accessory so ham-handed and ridiculous that you just know this is going to be a patent troll situati

Rumor: Windows 8 To Use Kinect-Like Facial Recognition

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/win8kinect.jpg" />Hackers poring through the <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/12/windows-8-milestone-1-build-leaks/">leaked Win

Update: Video Of The Kinect Chair In Action

The Kinect chair was arguably yesterday’s biggest news. The pics we posted just didn’t do it justice so there are a couple videos embedded here for your amusement. With this we’re on

Kinect And Netflix Joined Together In Beautiful Motion Harmony

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/netflix-kinect.jpg">The <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/kinect/">Kinect </a>is big news and is currently on a march to take over t
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