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My question is: why don't apps already exist? It's not like they haven't had a beta for months... why lose the momentum of a launch and not have some killer apps they can demo?

I must be missing something, because I don't see anything it will do for me out of the box.

I wonder if that isn't a hint at some flaw with the SDK or hardware. Usually MS is very gung ho about having early adopters through all of their various betas and early access plans and previews and etc.

Near mode lacks skeleton tracking - I'd expect more after the skeleton tracking is fixed.

You could do this already with a high enough resolution camera - the Kinect doesn't add anything new that makes this more possible.

This would be ridiculously awesome together with blink=click.

Hah, that does sound interesting, but the last thing I need is a repetitive strain injury in my eye muscles.