I've got a new XBox 360 w/Kinect arriving tomorrow, and I expect a bit of hassle installing it because all my A/V equipment in the room is housed in a built-in A/V closet and I hidden-rout all the ...

If you've ever wanted a more immersive gaming experience, this prototype from Microsoft Research should pique your interest. It uses a Kinect and a projector to extend the scene from your TV onto the ...

Microsoft may be taking an official wait and see approach before following companies like Oculus and Sony down the virtual reality headset path. That isn't stopping the company's research arm from ...

Back in January, Microsoft Research revealed an interesting project called Illumiroom. The system, which uses a Kinect and commodity projector, scans the environment around your TV and uses the info ...

The latest evolution of what was originally IllumiRoom has completely removed the screen from the equation, projection mapping games across an entire room. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and ...

Microsoft has strongly hinted that the IllumiRoom augmented reality peripheral projector is linked to the next-generation Xbox 720, in much the same way that Project Natal (Kinect) was eventually ...

Working with Microsoft, a company called Ubi Interactive is bringing us ever-closer to the day when everything is a touch screen. The software from Ubi (no relation to the game publisher Ubisoft) ...

While everyone seems to have a touchscreen in their pocket, the next big thing is having a touchscreen pretty much wherever you want, whenever you want it. This prototype "smart environment" lets you ...

Want to make all your 5 year old son’s friends jealous? What if he told them he could make REAL volcanoes in his sandbox? Will this be the future of sandboxes, digitally enhanced with augmented ...

Touchscreens have become such a normal part of our everyday lives. When seeing someone using a mobile phone without one, you automatically assume it's outdated and would agree that it's seriously time ...

Kinect is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years, at least since Microsoft de-bundled the motion-tracking system from the Xbox One in 2014, knocking $100 off the price tag and making the ...