A new Microsoft Research project has achieved a major milestone: Real-time machine translation of sign language using Kinect. Researchers in China created the prototype Kinect Sign Language Translator ...

Were we too quick to write off sign-language support in Microsoft's upcoming Kinect motion sensor add-on for the Xbox 360? According to Shannon Loftis, head of the Good Science Studio at Microsoft, ...

When it comes to gaming, Microsoft’s Kinect sensor is clearly one of the biggest developments in recent history — and the best is yet to come when Microsoft debuts its all new sensor alongside the ...

The Kinect has largely been a device meant for gaming on the Xbox 360, but since its release, it's been hacked and modified in so many ways. We've seen many different projects arise from the use of ...

Microsoft has had its unsung products before, but the Kinect may prove its best worst product. By that I mean it’s a great piece of hardware that the company can’t seem to sell to anyone but gamers.

Didn’t I just predict this? Although, I see the merit for a computer being capable of reading American Sign Language simply for interface purposes, as a somatic and tactile language, it can be quite ...

Foreign languages can be tough to pick up on, but sign language may take the cake for being the most foreign of all. With different motions for letters and words and phrases, Microsoft Research Asia ...

Hearing-impaired gamers got some welcome news last week, when patent documents revealed that Kinect would recognize American Sign Language . One of the more hilarious patent filings made, the document ...

The gossip blogs had a field day a few weeks ago, homing in on a patent filing unearthed by GoRumors that implied Microsoft’s Kinect motion-control camera for the Xbox 360 might recognize sign ...

Microsoft’s Kinect technology, already adept at reading hand and body movements, is incorporating sign language into its motion-sensing vocabulary as part of a new research project meant to help the ...