New Avatar Kinect software lets you video chat using your Xbox cartoon. It uses the Kinect sensor bar to track your facial movements -- read on for all the info. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke ...

Microsoft's motion-gaming peripheral has once again been hacked. This time, a band called Echo Lake has used the platform to create a music video for "Young Silence." CNET contributor Don Reisinger is ...

Dan Nixon and Don Jones recently shot a video for the band Echo Lake, featuring its song Young Silence. The video itself it pretty cool, and seems to fit the song’s almost dream-like sound well. But ...

Microsoft is integrating Kinect's video chat capabilities with its business video conferencing service, Lync, previously known as Office Communicator. The move will allow the Lync platform, which is ...

Body Dysmorphic Disorder from flight404 on Vimeo. Check out this awesome video of Kinect hacker Robert Hodgin manipulating the Kinect feed in realtime with Cinder, a C++ programming environment for ...

Tim Main and Joe Dixon's lush music video for New Look's "Nap on the Bow" creates a rippling underwater world with Xbox's Kinect camera. The ghostly shapes are based on depth information from the ...

Microsoft has released a new video for Kinect Star Wars, featuring Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt reenacting the scene in Star Wars where Darth Vader and Obi-Wan go at it. Warning: he is in his ...

Kinect units started landing at US press outlets yesterday, and Gamespot's first off the mark with some unmissable footage of six launch games being played. Hit the link right now. The site's posted ...

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 ...

In a bid to further monetise the impressive sales numbers of Kinect, Microsoft has been demonstrating a new method of interactive advertising, exclusive to Kinect-enabled Xbox 360s, called Natural ...

Microsoft this morning confirmed that it has acquired internet video chat company Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. And just like that, Microsoft has become a key player in the world of video chat. The ...

Kinect Star Wars brings the Star Wars Universe to life like never before. Harnessing the controller-free power of Kinect for Xbox 360, Kinect Star Wars allows fans to physically experience training as ...