While Microsoft has demonstrated early versions of the Xbox One user interface and base operating system in the past, previous demos have been carefully choreographed affairs operated completely by ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. With the Xbox One set to be decoupled from ...

For many sufferers of aphasia, a disorder caused by stroke that impairs the language centers of the brain, simple things like writing or typing up emails become incredibly difficult. One inventor, ...

The development of open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect motion-controller is already opening up new (if not entirely unpredictable) applications for the device. This example, developed by ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new Kinect hack features a flexible interface to create a touch screen-like interface with an extra layer of ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Blogger Chad Ruble has created an innovative, gesture-powered interface for his aphasia-suffering mother, using ...

In the movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise uses an advanced user interface system that lets him control media files with nothing more than a gesture from his gloved hands. He could do the same now with ...

Now that the Xbox One has been uncoupled from Kinect, Microsoft will overhaul the interface so you can get s**t done without having to shout "XBOX DO WHAT I SAY YOU TRAITOROUS COWARD" all the time. In ...

Well, I guess Microsoft is serious about Kinect. According to an Associated Press report today, the company is rolling out its newest Xbox 360 interface tomorrow (Tuesday) which will completely ...

Hackers playing around with Kinect using home-made PC device drivers have already produced a proof-of-concept video showing a multi-touch interface similar to the one Tom Cruise's character uses in ...