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At its event at Mobile World Congress today, Microsoft announced HoloLens 2, but alongside that is Azure Kinect. Originally called Project Kinect for Azure, which was announced at Build last year, you ...

Kinect was the coolest gadget Microsoft made that no one actually used, but now the company is bringing it back with an all new focus: AI and the cloud. At its Build conference today, Microsoft ...

Microsoft announced its Azure Kinect camera modules alongside HoloLens 2 early in 2019. Both devices use the same mixed-reality camera module, using a time-of-flight depth sensor to map objects around ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft resurrected Kinect yesterday during the company’s HoloLens 2 press event ...

Wha? Even before a Hololens sequel could grace Microsoft's stage at MWC, the company has revived the Kinect, but in a buttoned-downed business sense. Nearly a decade since the Kinect first launched, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More During a keynote at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona earlier this ...

Microsoft debuted the fourth generation of its Kinect sensor on Monday, bringing the hardware inside the next-generation HoloLens to the company’s developer community. The Project Kinect for Azure ...

Kinect's legacy lives on. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kinect, as it existed for Xbox, may be dead, but its legacy continues ...

The Kinect sensor is probably never coming back as a gaming device, but Microsoft has been continuing to work on the the platform’s underlying technology, and the company is now taking it to new ...