When Windows developers get their hands on the code for the motion-sensing system, we could see gesture touch everything from Office applications to computer monitors. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer ...

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Microsoft has yet to provide an exact launch date, but it will allow companies to use Kinect for commercial purposes starting sometime in early 2012. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

Now that Kinect for Windows 2.0 devices have shipped, a preview of the software development kit is available for more than game developers. The Kinect for Windows team released a preview of its Kinect ...

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To mark the one-year anniversary of the Kinect launch, Microsoft is releasing version 2 of the Kinect for Windows beta SDK. To mark the one-year anniversary of the Kinect launch, Microsoft is ...

The Kinect software development kit (SDK) beta was released by Microsoft today, enabling developers to create Visual Basic, Windows 7 C#,and C++ applications that recognize user input through the Xbox ...

Microsoft has announced the release of the first beta version of the Kinect SDK (Software Development Kit). This SDK allows developers (or at least hobbyists and academics (the tools to create and ...

As we reported yesterday, Microsoft has today released their new Kinect for Windows SDK, allowing developers to design and create new Kinect applications and projects, building applications with C++, ...

Fresh on the heels of its envisioned future video, Microsoft has posted an inspiring portrayal of the Kinect to YouTube. The video outlines the somewhat unexpected uses of Kinect in its one-year ...

REDMOND, Wash. — June 16, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Kinect™ for Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) from Microsoft Research, a free beta release for noncommercial ...

It has been in the cards for a while, but now it's been shown off for real: the Kinect SDK is coming to Windows. The beta will be available some time in the spring, with an eventual release later in ...