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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

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 ...

We never really know where the next game-changing innovation will come from. The smartphone started out as just that -- a smarter phone. But when Apple opened up its API to developers, that open ...

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 ...

West Health Institute’sinvestment arm hasput$4.25 million into a startup company that has adapted a gaming platform from Microsoft for health and rehabilitation. Reflexion Health Inc., West Health’s ...

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'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 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 ...