Hackaday

Kinect Gave Us A Preview Of The Future, Though Not The One It Intended

This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the ...
BGR

5 Clever Uses For Your Old Xbox Kinect

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...
Seeking Alpha

World Kinect outlines $2.20–$2.40 adjusted EPS target for 2026 while advancing portfolio transformation

The company is transitioning to full-year adjusted EPS guidance, with Tejada stating, "For the full year, however, we expect 2026 adjusted EPS to be in the range of $2.20 to $2.40, representing solid ...
Seeking Alpha

World Kinect Corporation (WKC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to World Kinect Corporation's Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the call over to Braulio Medrano, ...
Engadget

The Nex Playground is everything Xbox Kinect wanted to be

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to limit screen time with them, but as someone who has fond memories ...
GameSpot

Kinect’s Revenge: Nex Playground Outsells Xbox Hardware In The US

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, ...
The Escapist

Xbox Kinect turns 15 and bam, no one cares what the bottom of an avatar’s shoe looks like

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...
Inverse

15 Years Ago, The Kinect Turned Gaming Into A Full-Body Activity

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...
Business Wire

World Kinect Corporation Appoints Ira M. Birns as Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Kinect Corporation (NYSE: WKC), a global energy management, logistics and solutions company, today announced a series of executive leadership appointments. Effective ...
SlashGear

Xbox Kinect May Be Dead, But Its Spirit Lives On In These Devices

Anyone remember Xbox Kinect? It was this strange-looking motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, and later Xbox One, which used a camera to track the gamer's movements. First unveiled at E3 2009 ...
Game Rant

Xbox Kinect Finds New Purpose at Walmart

Miguel "Migz" Llado started playing games and consoles in the early '90s. From the Famicom generation up to now with the Xbox Series S, he has enjoyed many years with different games and platforms. A ...