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Hardly a day goes by without a new Kinect related project dropping in to my inbox. Last week, a project from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development in Minneapolis caught my attention given some coverage in New Scientist . Niall Firth wrote about Kinect being used to watch children...

Since the Kinect for Windows sensor and SDK arrived, the team has been adding more features and countries in which the product is available at a fair old clip. Today they released version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK. Kinect for Windows hardware is now available in Hong Kong, Korea...

The team at Razorfish have been creating amazing stuff for a while with Kinect - now one of them has released a book to help others get the best out of Kinect. James Ashley is a presentation layer architect for Razorfish and has teamed up with Jarrett Webb to release Beginning Kinect Programming with...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I was delighted to speak at the recent PSFK event in New York City and share some views on how technology is becoming more natural. Yesterday, PSFK published the video of my talk which you can view above. As I mention at the beginning of the talk I really do get paid to...

For Kinect owners who are familiar with Forza Motorsport 4’s Auto Vista mode you'll be comfortable stepping inside of vehicles using gestures. Now IdentityMine and Critical Mass have used Kinect for Windows to enable consumers to virtually explore the concept for the 2013 Nissan Pathfinder. This...

I’m always up for hearing about new ways to use Kinect and when it involves London, I’m even more intrigued. This ‘Pigeon Simulator’ was created by a team of researchers from the University College London and literally enables you to see London as a pigeon does – replete...

Last year we published a short video with me touring the Microsoft Home – shown above – it’s a facility we have on our main campus in Redmond that explores what technology may be commonplace in homes in the next 5-10 years. For that reason it’s not a Jetsons like place and is...

At TechForum in late February I shared a video regarding a Microsoft Research project called Illumishare and it got picked up quite widely – no surprise as it showed a prototype that enables remote users to share any physical or digital object on any surface. I recently found two other videos...

[reposted from the Kinect for Windows blog ] I grew up in the UK and my female cousins all had Barbie. In fact Barbies – they had lots of Barbie dolls and a ton of accessories that they were obsessed with. I was more of a BMX kind of kid and thought my days of Barbie education were long behind...

TED released this video yesterday and it’s circulating widely on the web today. It shows Marco Tempest employing a Kinect sensor to deliver a live augmented reality presentation and it’s pretty dazzling stuff. It’s not immediately clear from the video what is going on but some photos...

In a post on the Kinect for Window blog yesterday, Craig Eisler announced that Kinect for Windows is coming to more countries in the coming months – specifically Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan in late May. In June, Kinect for Windows will be available in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland...

If you’re a fan of PSFK like me, you’re keen to read of the latest trends in technology. Everyone loves to share stories of how life will be made better or cooler by something being developed in a garage, university lab, or maybe a campus setting like where I work at Microsoft. It’s...

Surface 2.0 is really starting to gather some momentum and applications like this one can only push that forward. I was only remarking to a friend last week how it’d be great to see a fashion magazine using the capability of Surface to enjoy a digital light table designed for their creative production...

My friends back in the Microsoft Technology Center have been busy with Surface 2.0 In this video, David Brown from the MTC demonstrates an application called NUIVerse that is an appropriate play on the word universe. It brings a very natural user interface to exploring the universe. Fast and fluid...

Earlier today, Craig Mundie , our Chief Research and Strategy Officer, hosted his fifth TechForum gathering here at Microsoft’s Redmond HQ. Every year, Craig invites a small group of leading tech journalists and bloggers to share an in-depth look at the company’s strategic and technical vision...

I’m often asked where I see Kinect going next and much like the Kinect Effect advert , I put that question back on the questioner. One of the answers I give is we see it going into more and more places outside of the living room – places like schools and hospitals. In fact in the advert,...

Towards the end of 2011 and in the first few weeks of 2012, the usual raft of technology predictions started to spread across the web. I’ve enjoyed reading many of them given that I spend my time talking to people across Microsoft about where they think the future lies and what technologies and...

I regularly check on the creative uses of Kinect though there are so many now I haven’t posted about any for a while. One did catch my eye recently though – a reverse parking system using Kinect, developed by Gibson Hu at the University of Technology in Sydney. My own car here in the US...

GM has been working on technologies to create a more interesting travel experience for car passengers, and had the bright idea to get young creative people at the Future Lab at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel to help them. The Windows of Opportunity project asked students to create interactive...

[update] Kinect for Windows is now available for pre-order from Amazon at $249.99 During Steve Ballmer’s CES keynote this evening (which was a wide ranging chat with Ryan Seacrest) he announced that the Kinect for Windows hardware and software would become available on February 1st. It’s...

I’ve shared several videos over the last month about the new Xbox 360 dashboard - it’s Metro look and Bing voice search in particular. I’ve been busy playing with the beta over that last month and Major Nelson just announced that on December 6th, the new interface will be arriving at...

Of all the topics I’ve covered in Next over the last year, natural user interface, or NUI, is the one that has probably gotten the most ink. It’s with good reasons – I personally find it a fascinating topic and like all good stories, there is much more to NUI than meets the eye. It’s...

Bing search – coming to Xbox soon and leaving your remotes behind. Or at the very least leaving convoluted menu systems behind...i hope! Tweet

Everyone knows what Harlow’s Monkeys are right? Well if you don’t you will by the end of this talk from Stevie Bathiche. You may have read about Stevie and the work of the Applied Sciences Team he manages here at Microsoft as I’ve mentioned him a few times on this blog and he was on...

I’ll hand it to the folks at Nokia, they give good video…this latest video from Nokia Research shows us HumanForm , a joint effort between the research team and Nokia Design. While some of the ideas in the video may seem a little far out, the Kinetic device , shown recently at Nokia World...