The software giant imagines a future where its motion-sensing game controller can help patients get care and surgeons leaf through medical records. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle ...

The news from Fast Company that Microsoft has ceased manufacturing Kinect, a device developed for its gaming console XBox 360 in 2010, will have an effect on several digital health companies that have ...

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 ...

The new Kinect, the second generation of Microsoft's motion capture camera technology, has been making healthcare headlines for nearly a year now as a few select companies were able to tinker with ...

San Diego-based Reflexion Health, which offers physical therapy programs that leverage Microsoft Kinect for Windows, has raised $7.5 million from the West Health Investment Fund. The Fund was also the ...

Last week Microsoft unveiled its new generation Xbox One videogame console and Kinect 2.0 -- and while the company has made no official healthcare annoucement, the Kinect motion-detecting sensor could ...

The Microsoft Kinect may be more or less defunct when it comes to gaming, but it’s getting a second life as a medical device. Reflexion Health uses it as part of the kit it delivers to rehabilitation ...

Microsoft has combined two of its technologies, Xbox 360 Kinect and the HealthVault online platform, to help seniors take better care of themselves at Los Angeles senior centers. Following a ...

I am perched on the balls of my feet, the arches painfully taut as I begin to trot on the bland gray carpeting. "Run," says the doctor, his neck swiveling towards the hallway looming ahead of me. I ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: For a while it looked like Microsoft's Xbox Kinect was the future of gaming. Debuting in ...

Kinect, a motion censor on the latest Xbox One console. Other than being a motion censor during games, users can simply replace a variety of programs on the Xbox One with Kinect.REUTERS/Nick Adams ...