Microsoft's Yusuf Medhi has confirmed that the firm is in internal discussions about how its dropping of mandatory Kinect requirements could free up more processing power for games. He's also said ...

Microsoft's decision to offer a Kinect-less Xbox One starting in June could have an impact on the processing power used for games, according to VP for devices and studios Yusuf Mehdi. Though he ...

Manufacturing for Kinect for Xbox One has ended but it is not the end of the journey for the technology. Kinect continues to ...

Today's surprise announcement that Microsoft will next month start selling the Xbox One console for $100 less without a Kinect came after a couple of months of serious discussion, said Yusuf Mehdi, ...

Destiny is just one of many games that will benefit from the additional GPU power gained by dropping Kinect processing, following the Xbox One's June SDK release. Speaking of Microsoft, the company's ...

Following last night’s big news that Microsoft are ditching the requirements for the Kinect 2 camera to be sold with every Xbox One, the implications of what this could mean are only just becoming ...

The Xbox One's ability to run up to four apps in the background (or on the side via Snap mode) during gameplay and to switch from a game to those apps almost instantaneously obviously comes at some ...

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Earlier this week I traveled to Microsoft’s Mountain View campus to play with the company’s new Kinect sensor. While there I met with a few of the team’s engineers to discuss how they had built the ...