Walt Disney is often talked about as the godfather of animation, but that honor truly belongs to two Frenchmen: Charles-Émile Reynaud projected the first animation onto a screen in 1877 and Émile Cohl ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Mar 12, 2012 at 3:19 pm ...

An enterprising team of animators has hacked Microsoft‘s Kinect sensor suite to do something tangibly amazing: They’re using the cheap hardware as a motion-replication system to power CGI characters.

When you have a product like Kinect, so closely associated with gaming, how do you convince everybody else that they should be installing a motion-tracking camera in the home? Microsoft is looking to ...

Zombies don’t have to be scary – especially when kids can create them in their own image. Using the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor and an app called YAKiT, children can step into the role of the undead ...