Nothing new here. The improvements are mainly in software.
The most important part of the specs for judging how much better Kinect 2 is compared to Kinect 1 (meaning the actual hardware, not some software-library running on the console) is the depth resolution.
Unfortunately, that's exactly the part of the Kinect 2 specs that Microsoft has for some reason so far not released any information about.
, one would have to know the resolution of the depth sensor - but for some reason







