I have two X1's...

One in my living room with Kinect...

One in my den at my desk... Without Kinect...

Works perfectly fine both ways...

let me share my experience with it.

I get above 90% accuracy when my room is quiet on voice commands. But whe I'm running a game or anything causing volume to come out of my tv the accuracy plummets to an unusable level making the voice command play calling and substitution features in nba 2k14 a waste of space. I could be saying nothing at all and the screen constantly . prompts me that the voice command was unrecognizable.

As for it's recognition. I only have two profiles at them moment, mine and my brother. We do look fairly alike and the xbox will sign the wrong person in from time to time but most of the time it can tell us apart. A nice feture with that system is when we sit side by side with one controller on and I hand the controller to him, it automatically makes his profile the lead profile. comes in handy when we take turns playing online matches in cod ghost. On the flip side sometimes when I'm alone I might be enjoying online match of killer instinct when kinect suddenly decides I am no longer myself but my brother and signs me out rudely ending the match.

Like said before it saves seconds and waste seconds depending on whats happening. I don't bother using voice commands in game anymore, only for cod that I play with headphones so kinect still hears me.

I havent gotten to the point of disabling it yet, no.

um..the xbox one store isn't empty- there are tons of games in it.  

and my comment was not exclusively meant for the xbox one store.  pretty much anything can be hidden beneath layers of menus.  

and your xbox went to ghosts instead of turning off?  that's literally the first time I've heard of that happening when the commands for each are so different.  

That was worth making an account for... altho looking at your sig I think there is another reason you're here isn't there?

You have to calibrate the Kinect while your TV's volume is turned all the way up. Which is why it does that calibration tune. Then it can hear you no matter where your volume is.

pretty much this. 

I read up on this when I was at my friend's place and he was having similar issues so I told him to perform the calibration properly and the recognition was definitely improved.  still not quite 100%, but pretty close.  

The Xbox One is set up to exist without the Kinect. Kinect just makes the commands quicker if you memorize all of them.

What's the point?

It's like those people that eat a deciduous cake with awesome frosting and don't even try the frosting and refuse to eat it.

I use the Kinect all the time. It's taken a little to get used to it, as it's different words and orders sometimes than the 360. You have to learn how to use it, just like a mouse, commands or anything else.

I don't say Kinect is just awesome and revolutionary because of gaming - I say it's all that and more because I have been in computer tech longer than most here have been alive. I've seen a number of things come and go. And just like adding a hard drive to a console, I think it's here to stay.

The Kinect technology existed a gen before it came out. It will not evolve beyond where it is. Hypothetically speaking hologram technology will make better use of what the Kinect is trying to accomplish. 

I am more inclined to believe Sonys understanding of the flaws of controller-free motion controls. You should see their video for the creation of the Move. They explain all of the things wrong with hands free motion controls six years before the Kinect came out. Its not doing anything that hasn't been done, its just good marketing.

People shouldn't HAVE to put up with "layers and layers" of UI.