Ok who has ever watched STAR WARS and wanted a 3D princess Leia Hologram? Holograms are often thought of as an optical novelty that can produce pretty 3D pictures, but they are capable of doing much more than that. One of my colleagues Dr Dave Brown has been continuing to explore natural user interaction...

Kinect for Windows samples are now available under an open source license.   You can find everything on CodePlex: http://kinectforwindows.codeplex.com/ .  Why is this now on CodePlex? Easy Access -> we will continue to release our sample applications as part of our Developer Toolkit . ...

On the 11 th December 2011,  the DPE Academic team exhibited at the annual Microsoft Research Cambridge Think Computer Science event held this year at The Imperial War Museum, Duxford .   A suitably expansive and fun  venue for the focus of the event - Inspiring 12-14 year old school children...

Kinect for life This week we had an event showcasing  medical technology innovation in partnership with Kingston University, the University of Surrey, Brunel University and Microsoft. Given the revolutionary advances made possible with Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows, Medical professionals and researchers...

The Kinect for Windows team announced our Fall Roadmap today on our blog. It includes an SDK update that we will release on October 8 th . In addition to making Kinect for Windows hardware available in seven new markets this autumn, we will be releasing an update to the Kinect for Windows runtime and...

The winners of the 10th annual Imagine Cup , the world’s premier student technology competition, the winning Software Design project developed by Ukrainian Team quadSquad allows deaf individuals to communicate verbally using custom-designed sensory gloves and a smartphone application to translate sign...

There has been tremendous excitement with Microsoft Kinect within the robotics space signalling the potential opportunities that exist in transforming robots to low-cost mainstream consumer devices. RDS 4, with support from the Kinect sensor, aims to make it easier for developers to build applications...

Kinect for Windows is now Available! Version 1.0 of the SDK and runtime are now available for download, and distribution partners in our twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware, enabling companies to start to deploy their solutions. Looking for great on content on how...

Kinect for Windows Product Available February 1st The Kinect for Windows product group announced the upcoming release of their full commercial product in an official blog post on January 9. The new Kinect for Windows hardware and accompanying software will be available on February 1. It will be supported...