Microsoft has announced Avatar Kinect for Xbox Live. The software uses Kinect to track movements and facial expressions, such as smiling and eyebrow movements, and then displays them on a user's ...

Microsoft’s upcoming “Avatar Kinect” was pitched as a glorified chatroom. It didn’t sound that exciting. This real-time demonstration, though, at least makes ...

LAS VEGAS--As is the case each year, one of the centerpieces of the Consumer Electronics Show is the keynote address from the CEO of Microsoft. Since 2009, that job has fallen to Steve Ballmer, the ...

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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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Kinect Fun Labs: Kinect Me Create an avatar that looks just like you simply by standing in front of the Kinect sensor. Kinect scans in your clothes, face ...

We never really know where the next game-changing innovation will come from. The smartphone started out as just that -- a smarter phone. But when Apple opened up its API to developers, that open ...