New York-based Adafruit Industries really wants to get its hands on open-source drivers for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 peripheral, Kinect. So much so that the firm is offering a handsome bounty for the ...

Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...

Since the launch of Microsoft's peripheral, Kinect, it's been flying off the shelves. And while casual gamers are enjoying the device, it's also been getting a lot of attention from the types that ...

There has been plenty of news about Microsoft's Kinect being hacked, well, now an open source kinect driver supporting the depth and RBG Camera has also been released by marcan42. Those of you ...

The race to claim the bounty offered by Adafruit for open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect has been run and won. The winner is hacker Hector Martin whose achievement of producing drivers to pull ...

As expected, the first open source drivers for the Microsoft Kinect that allow it to be used with a PC have been released. A developer by the name of Hector Martin is the author of the driver. Right ...

It looks like Microsoft is working on an official SDK and also official Kinect drivers for Windows according to a recent report. We heard at CES from Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer that Microsoft would ...