Avatar Kinect is free to Xbox Live Gold members, but Microsoft says it will be available to unpaid Xbox Live members, as well, until Sept. 7.

Avatar Kinect will be available this afternoon, and since it's free for everyone until it goes gold-only on September 8 the barrier of entry is low.

Avatar Kinect not only puts your avatar in a virtual conference-type of room with those of your friends, it tracks your facial expressions for an eerily realistic chat experience. (Even eerier ...

Avatar Kinect, your not-quite-creepy smirking, winking virtual self, is launching today in Kinect Fun Labs. It tracks your eyebrows, mouth, and other points on your face to translate your real ...

So yeah, Avatar Kinect is going to be something of a very fancy chat room. And it will be free to those who've signed up for the $50-per-year Xbox Live Gold subscription.

During this week's Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie confirmed what was already largely suspected: Avatar Kinect will be available ...

'Avatar Kinect,' Microsoft's social experience that maps facial expressions and displays them on your Xbox Live avatar, is set for a late spring release.

Avatar Kinect "will go live worldwide" this month, Mundie said. (Update: Microsoft released Avatar Kinect on Monday. It requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription normally, ...

Microsoft on Monday released Avatar Kinect, a feature for the hands-free controller that will let users set up a virtual presence to interact with up to seven other friends in up to 24 virtual stages.

The launch of Microsoft's Avatar Kinect yesterday has provided a new form of creative expression to Xbox 360 users -- letting them put their Xbox Live avatars in virtual settings and interact with ...

Kinect Fun Labs, the free-to-download toys for Xbox Live Arcade (and Kinect) that have delivered optimized avatar. … ...

Remember a few days ago when we reported on a "Avatar Kinect" poster-sighting behind the scenes of CES 2011? Well Microsoft has today confirmed the existance of Avatar Kinect at their CES 2011 ...