At E3 last month, Microsoft launched a new Xbox Live service called Kinect Fun Labs, a developer-supported platform equipped with tools that take advantage of the console developer’s motion camera ...

Microsoft’s latest application for its motion sensing controller is called Avatar Kinect, and it allows players to use their avatars in a way other than the usual jumping and dodging of virtual ...

Microsoft has unveiled Avatar Kinect at its CES 2011 keynote presentation. The social suite uses the peripheral's motion sensing capabilities to translate the user's gestures and facial expressions ...

Utilizing Kinect's motion tracking and facial recognition, Avatar Kinect takes ordinary video calls into a fully virtual environment giving each user a facial expressions and gestures-reproducing ...

The immense financial success of the Kinect wasn’t the only thing that Microsoft had to announce at this year’s CES conference—they also had some fun Kinect gadgetry to entertain the audience with.

Microsoft's Craig Mundie showing an Avatar Kinect prototype at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle today. As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing, a ...

Kotaku has obtained a video demonstrating how Avatar Kinect models the user's face in order to create an expressive, speaking animation. Check it out through the break. The brief tech demo shows ...

After a long wait, Microsoft today is releasing Avatar Kinect, the online video chat application for Xbox that uses the Kinect sensor to track facial expressions and mouth movements and translate them ...

Microsoft has been touting Avatar Kinect, since CES way back in January, and you can now finally it try out for yourself. The Kinect Fun Labs Gadget is available as a free download for all Xbox Live ...

Starting this spring, people who own an Xbox 360 and a Kinect sensor will be able to use avatars to talk to each other in a variety of virtual worlds, with their avatars not only mimicking their ...

So, Microsoft doesn't have a press-ready demo of its new Avatar Kinect, but we at least got to see it in action today. To keep the unwashed masses lining up to try Kinect at the booth entertained, ...

As I've played my way through Kinect's launch titles with the kids I've realized there is something of a pattern emerging. The games that go to the trouble of putting your 360 avatar on screen and ...