GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Hearing-impaired gamers got some welcome news last week, when patent ...

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 ...

In a collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia and the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers tested how the Kinect's body-tracking features can be ...

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’s Kinect is nothing short of impressive, but it can used for much more than just entertaining games. Microsoft Research Asia is developing the Kinect Sign Language Translator system which ...

Worldwide, an estimated 360 million people are deaf or hard of hearing. Because the majority of hearing individuals do not understand sign language, people who are deaf often have difficulties ...

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 ...

A Microsoft Research team is working with an application that, when tied into a Kinect for Windows hardware unit, can automatically translate sign language, even from a language other than English.

It’s not just your clumsy leg-kicks that Kinect will understand, with a newly-discovered patent showing that it’s actually capable of understanding American Sign Language, or ASL. Is this another way ...

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 ...