It may not be obvious, but Valve’s Steam Deck is capable of being more than just a games console. Demonstrating this is [Parker Reed]’s experiment in 3D scanning his kitchen with a Kinect and Steam ...

The old gen 1 Kinect has seen a fair bit of use in the field of making 3D scans out of real world scenes. Now that Xbox 360 Kinects are winding up at yard sales and your local Goodwill, you might even ...

<em>Star Wars Kinect</em> aside, Microsoft wants to remind you that its motion control hardware isn't all play; the company has finally announced the eleven finalists ...

Jesus. We were joking when we said, "Go make some robots." Why do you have to be so literal? Short version: some MIT people took Kinect, strapped it to an iRobot Create along with a range-finding ...

[Photo: FTIC] Some of the biggest uncanny valley problems we have with making 3D-models (i.e. video games and CGI movies) involve fine detail and making moving characters not look like marionette ...

A man with a black rectangular bar strapped to his chest walks a careful circuit around the skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex. It’s not performance art. The black rectangle is a motion sensor called Kinect ...

Thanks to the mobile revolution, we probably all have hundreds of blurry, self-taken, and horribly off-center pictures of ourselves. Looking for something a bit impressive? How about a little statue ...

Using the Kinect driver supplied last week, a hacker was able to build an application that renders 3D images from real time video. We all knew that the possibilities of a hacked Kinect would blow our ...

Like many people, I have been preparing files for 3D printing using 3D modeling programs or downloading them from 3D model ...