What exactly does the IR projector in your Kinect do? A few videos on YouTube shot in night vision mode shows you just how much invisible light the device throws out. Dots everywhere!

Microsoft's $150 Xbox add-on, the Kinect, can use face-recognition technology to log you onto your Xbox Live account. But it's not trouble-free. To understand why, you need to know how it works.

All of you swept up in Kinect fever over the weekend still may not get how the thing tracks your every move. It basically uses brute force, watching thousands of tiny infrared dots that it blasts all ...

For all the buzz about the new Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One, there are remarkably few facts to go around. Sources trumpet its infrared-enabled ability to detect motion in a dark room, for ...

Tim Main and Joe Dixon's lush music video for New Look's "Nap on the Bow" creates a rippling underwater world with Xbox's Kinect camera. The ghostly shapes are based on depth information from the ...

Being late to the party, an Australian ghost hunter discovered that the Kinect is perfect for finding ghostly figures, using the advanced infrared technology built into the device from Microsoft. When ...

Microsoft has killed off the Kinect seven years after the company first introduced the Xbox accessory that paved the way for 3D-tracking and virtual-assistant technologies that will soon be ubiquitous ...

One of the three “cameras” on the face of the Kinect is actually an IR projector, throwing out infrared light so the other (non-RGB) camera can get a sense of your room in 3D space. It’s invisible to ...