Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...

New York-based Adafruit Industries really wants to get its hands on open-source drivers for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 peripheral, Kinect. So much so that the firm is offering a handsome bounty for the ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Two weeks ago, an industrious software engineer created open-source ...

DIY hardware company Adafruit Industries recently offered a $3,000 bounty to encourage the development of open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect motion control camera. Developer Hector Martin ...

A hacker won a contest on Wednesday to be the first person to successfully create an open-source driver for Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensitive controller. Last week, open-source hardware developers ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Just three hours after the European launch, Hector Martin has already hacked Microsoft’s new Kinect motion system and enabled it to run under Linux open-source drivers with support for RGB input as ...

The software giant, hoping to get more developers writing PC applications to use its motion-sensing controller, is offering some pieces of code under an Apache 2.0 license. Jay Greene, a CNET senior ...

The NUI Group posted its Kinect motion controller hacking results first, and is now working on an SDK and Windows drivers to enable all the capabilities of the peripheral. That will all be released as ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. In a move that few saw coming, Microsoft has released parts of the software used to control its Kinect hardware into the Open Source world. Twenty two code ...

If you want to build a Linux application with motion controls, then you are in luck. Igalia has released an open source skeleton tracking library that works with Microsoft’s Kinect input device. The ...