Some lucky (or unlucky depending on your current stand...) beta testers, are now in the possession of Kinect cameras, and Engadget has the word.
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As beta testing programs go, Microsoft's Kinect venture has been kind of... leaky. No surprises, therefore, that we've now received our first in-the-plastic pictures of the motion-tracking camera peripheral, replete with a few select shots of its packaging. Redmond's promise that hardware was en route to testers was clearly not a hollow one, and we can now probably expect a bunch more unauthorized disclosures about the user experience with what should be final retail units. The outside of the packaging includes a couple of teasers encouraging users to pick up some of those bodacious PDP stands and wall mounts for their Kinect -- presumably the start of a tidal wave of Kinect accessories.
The reports that you can't use it while sitting on the couch, completely turned me off on this.
It also watches you while you make out with your girlfriend on the couch, it's two eyes leering at you, secretly uploading your mack session to Youtube.
I didn't get in, but I know somebody that did. He plays while sitting, so the story that it doesn't is pure bullshit. The demo games they had him download (yes, download, no disc, but about 5 gigs of hard drive space) respond pretty damn well. And the tuner is actually really cool. Watching the Kinect adjust its camera angle is a little scary, though, but just need time to get used to it.
