First off, lets keep to the trolling to a minimum. We don't care that you think the Kinect is a copy of the Eyetoy, requires a lot of space, barely works, or any other troll post you might make. If you don't have anything positive to say, don't bother posting in this thread. This isn't the thread for that.
Now that that's over with, what is your favorite part of Kinect?
I've had a blast with friends playing Kinect Adventures and Your Shape was pretty cool in that it's an actual workout that destroyed my legs the first time I played (it made me do four sets of lunges in a row, my legs still hurt!) but I don't think that's my favorite part. I do think controlling the Kinect HUB with my hand is fun and it's nice to be able to lounge and control it, but it can be finicky and isn't really my favorite part either. Using ESPN and Zune was pretty cool, but ESPN didn't seem to have a lot of options and Zune's UI was hard to navigate.
My favorite part has been the voice commands. They just work, they're awesome, and they can only get better.
Right now they're pretty limited but even with the limited options it's still just damn cool. I like just being able to say "Xbox, play disc" and your game starts. That's neat but that's not the real reason I like that feature the best.
I was cleaning my home yesterday and had Last.fm playing as I usually do. I was in the kitchen doing dishes when a song came on that I didn't really feel like. Usually I would just have to put up with the song or dry my hands, get my remote, and go to the next song but then I realized I had Kinect. I didn't expect it to work all the way in the kitchen while facing away with the water running so I said in a bold void "Xbox, next" and to my surprise it worked!
I was in awe.
So the whole two-ish hours it takes me to clean my home I was happy to be able to have complete control over my music without having to take any sort of break from cleaning. I couldn't get it to work while vacuuming (I even tried standing directly in front of my Kinect and yelling but no luck there) but it was still a pretty awesome experience.
I can't wait until they add more voice commands, as I said it can only get better.
