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Laura and Paul bring you the hottest stories that Microsofties are pinging each other about. Here's a look at some of this week's juicy stories: Xbox 360 in the lead Link Removed Calling Droid devleopers to WP7 Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed

Last week we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and...

Last week we had our Kinect launch with a special Channel 9 Live event. Just prior to this we held a 24 hour Code Camp to allow developers to play with the Kinect SDK for 24 hours and see what they could come up with. I interviewed the teams after the event to take a look at their project and...

With the recent presentation at E3, Kinect is slowly making its debut into popular game franchises (like Mass Effect) beyond its original gimmick game appearances and Microsoft shows little chance of slowing down in getting it adopted by everyone. To … Continue reading More...

The PC may be finally liberated from the mouse and the keyboard. On Thursday, Microsoft began recruiting developers to build software that will bring motion and voice control to computers that run Windows 7. More...

Samantha Velez Use the 360 Kinect on the PC Microsoft made the Kinect software development kit (SDK) available today. PC users will be able to make their own applications to use on Windows 7. Microsoft Senior Director of Developer Relations, Jeff Sandquist , said, “The wait is over—we are very...

Microsoft has announced the release of the first beta version of the Kinect SDK (Software Development Kit). More...

You saw it at Mix—in typical fashion, our mission was to build two Jellybean robots in three weeks for the Mix keynote; no pressure, right?—and now it's time to introduce Project Jellybean on Coding4Fun. So, here it is—the Kinect drivable lounge chair! The lounge chair has Omni-directional...

This video covers the basics of installing and using the Kinect sensor. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Overview of Kinect Sensor [Link Removed] Device Manager [Link Removed] Using Kinect as an Audio Device [Link Removed] Using Kinect for...

This video covers the basics of reading camera data from the Kinect sensor. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Camera data information [Link Removed] Creating the UI [Link Removed] Initializing the Kinect runtime [Link Removed] Reading values...

This video covers how to set up your development environment. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Sample Requirements [Link Removed] Starting the Demo [Link Removed] Adding References [Link Removed] Coding4Fun Kinect Library [Link Removed]...

This video covers the basics of using depth data from Kinect. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Depth data overview [Link Removed] Initializing the Kinect Runtime [Link Removed] Using the depth data to create an image [Link Removed] Using...

This video covers the basics of reading audio data from the Kinect microphone array, a demo adapted from the built in audio recorder. The video also covers speech recognition using Kinect. For the built in example this was based on and the speech demo in C#, check out your "My...

Channel 9 and Microsoft Research are excited to announce the Kinect for Windows SDK Beta available to download at Link Removed To mark the launch we've hosted a 24 hour CodeCamp on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Fueled by coffee and pizza, 30 lucky developers were given a Kinect...

The Channel 9 team will be broadcasting live from the Channel 9 studios for a special Kinect focused event tomorrow, June 16th 2011 from 9:30AM PST. Head to http://channel9.msdn.com/live tomorrow, June 16th 2011, at 9:30AM PST for a live and interactive broadcast featuring the Kinect sensor. As...

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Microsoft asked us to drop by at E3 to chat up a generically identified "Xbox executive," imagine our surprise when we found Kudo Tsunoda hiding behind door number six. Wearing his signature shades, Kudo gave us a brief primer on what makes Kinect great, or at least a heavy endorsement of Kinect...

Carl Ledbetter is a designer for Xbox and has worked on the Kinect and Zune. He has also been at the company for sixteen years and takes us on a trip down memory lane starting with the Intellimouse he helped design in his early days at MS. Link Removed Link Removed

Microsoft's E3 Media Briefing was yesterday and the conference kicks off with a bang in Los Angeles today. Kudo Tsunoda talks to Channel 9 about the E3 Kinect announcements and the soon to be released SDK for Kinect. Link Removed Link Removed

Dan Greenawalt stops by the Channel 9 studio to talk about the E3 announcements surrounding Forza 4, the integration of Kinect and his love of tire dynamics. Link Removed Link Removed