Xbox 720 will outsell PS4 and Wii-U. Kinect 2.0 will be Killer App - Opinion Piece.

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I think people need to get past Kinect when it comes to Kinect 2. They are two different beasts.

First and foremost, Kinect 2 will utilize a higher resolution camera, but that's the small potatoes of it. Kinect used Primesense technology. Primesense uses a IR emitter to paint an area with IR light. An IR detector then determines the depth based on the heat signature.

Kinect 2 uses LIDAR. A small power laser scans the room using the time it takes for the light to reflect back to measure the distance. It's far more responsive, accurate, and capable of being used in both dark as well as bright (read sunlit) rooms, which is a problem for IR systems like Kinect.

This is one reason why the images that recently were posted suggesting a new look for Kinect had only a single area for a lens/camera. Kinect 2 will utilize a different type of camera (apologies as the acronym is failing me) that is capable of both receiving color as well as IR light in one sensor.

As mentioned elsewhere the response time of Kinect 2 is less than 10 milliseconds. Far less than is perceivable by a human being.

So, let's be reasonable. Is Kinect 2 going to mean FPS or RPGs without a controller? No. Certainly, as has been demonstrated this generation, Kinect 2 will be able to help augment FPS or RPGs by providing voice recognition to games, character augmentation, and even perspective change. The latter especially when used with IllumiRoom.