How many reviews are needed on metacritic before a general/final verdict can be derived? I don't follow metacritic much so I'm not sure how many most need before they consider it final.

I'm sure MS would like to hire you for their PR/Marketing department

Oh, I'm sure they'd love me. It's no secret I'm their Biggest Fan. 

I would however preach to the choir about the alternate uses for the Kinect outside of the Xbox. The relatively open source nature of the device, the freely available SDK, the general accessibility of the hardware, etc. has resulted in the most interesting home brew and independently developed software I've ever seen out of what was really just marketed as a video game peripheral, but has far more interesting uses outside of the commercial games released so far. 

I've been able to get pretty decent MoCap data using iPi Software and a pair of Kinect sensors that's easily imported into Motion Builder or Maya for editing and project use. Easily game level results with a decent animator doing the clean up, hand and face animation. 

Sounds very cool, are people actually using it as a develoment tool? Sounds like a cheap and easy solution for testing to be used in conjunction with mocap

It's more in the software than the hardware, but the accessibility and low cost of the sensors make it an easy choice for software development outside of commercial games. 

While there are far more toy like homebrew programs that have been developed this way, the one I've used (iPi Soft) is a commercial application that can be used to produce professional level motion capture results. It has a fair amount of limitations, but even working within those, for less than $1,000 (over the cost of a PC with production level 3D software) you can have the software and hardware necessary to create quick motion capture for import into Motion Builder or Maya to clean up and turn into game character animation. 

But most of the Kinect software development outside of game applications has been experimental, prototypes, gadgets, etc. I'd say most people writing code are using it as more of a toy, but there are other uses for Kinect and the SDK MS is distributing. 

GI gave it a 5.5 out of 10, but that doesn't bother CGI. tell me how it goes, or just do a thread on it.