Last week, open source drivers for Kinect were released. Shortly afterwards, we showed you a video of somebody using the motion-sensing device as a means of “multi-touch” input. Today, we have something much, much cooler. A youtube poster by the name of “Okreylos” has used Kinect to generate a 3D model of his room, and himself; showing how impressive the …

Yesterday we told you about the availability of PC drivers for Microsoft’s Xbox Motion-sensing peripheral, Kinect – and how those drivers would help usher in a natural user interface for general computing. Today we bring you the first video of that evolution. An industrious developer has taken those drivers and enabled a Minority Report styled method of interacting with his …

Prior to the launch of Kinect, Microsoft said that they would be making a profit on each camera sold. Some snoopy people over at UBM Tech Insights have decided to put that claim to the test. They got hold of a Kinect unit and ripped it to pieces. By analysing and tracing each component of the Kinect camera, Tech Insights …

[Update: The story has been updated with an official comment from Microsoft SA’s product and marketing manager] Earlier today, the official Twitter account for Microsoft South Africa sent out a tweet claiming that “Almost 99% of local stores sold out of Kinect in the first day!”. That’s a pretty darn impressive achievement indeed, or at least it would be if …

Right now, Kinect is an Xbox only thing. There’s no doubt that some time in the future, Microsoft will open it up for use on other platforms, most notable the PC. It’s the beginning of the shift away from graphical user interfaces (click click!) towards a more natural user interface (I’m afraid I can’t let you do that Dave). A …

There’s a nice story about Kinect doing the rounds this morning, what really surprised me though is that I found it via a tweet from Major Nelson and the first line of the article states “There’s almost nothing I’ve seen before I picked up Kinect that really interested me. Many of the games looked OK, and the ones I played …

In all the excitement for the local launch of Xbox Live, another piece of Microsoft’s entertainment pie seems to have gone a little unnoticed. Yes, that would be Kinect, Microsoft’s revolutionary controller-free motion-sensing peripheral. It’s in stores right now, for the somewhat unreasonable R1999 – or the much more reasonable R4299 when bundled with a brand new 250 Gb Xbox …

Yesterday, Microsoft hosted an event to celebrate the launch of both the new Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360 as well as the official arrival of Xbox Live in South Africa. Being the fine, upstanding and not to mention completely professional chaps that we are (they promised free food), we were there to cover the whole event and stayed until …