With a host of improvements rumored for the next Kinect, it’s a little surprising to see that there’s still room for the current Kinect to get better: Microsoft has added face tracking ...

Kinect Studio for developers which allows recording and play back of Kinect data, streamlining development and testing time The face tracking SDK which allows real time tracking of facial features ...

Other features in the new Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK 1.5 update include a Face Tracking SDK, which provides a real-time 3D mesh of facial features.

The Kinect for Windows blog offers these details on the new feature … Seated Skeletal Tracking is now available. This tracks a 10-joint head/shoulders/arms skeleton, ignoring the leg and hip joints.

Microsoft’s Kinect sensor has already expanded beyond the Xbox 360 to Windows PCs. Next stop? The car. People will be able to interact with their cars using gestures, the system will know who ...

The SDK also improves overall skeletal tracking performance and face-tracking capabilities. The Kinect Studio developer tool allows users to record and playback Kinect data for the testing of ...

Kinect is obviously completely capable of great skeletal tracking, so we're hoping for a bit more expressiveness, but we're still early on, so things could always be tweaked a bit before launch.

Might we ever go beyond mere face tracking to include Kinect-style tech to track body or arms, for example? There are still some things that can be improved with the head-tracking.

Kinect for Windows 1.5 includes facial movement tracking.As of next month, Kinect for Windows hardware will arrive in 15 more countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, India, the ...

With a host of improvements rumored for the next Kinect, it's a little surprising to see that there's still room for the current Kinect to get better: Microsoft has added face tracking ...

Microsoft today released version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK, and made Kinect for Windows hardware available in four more countries.