Kinect
Yesterday, as promised, my Kinect arrived and I couldn't wait to play it, but I was good enough to work all afternoon, leave work and go to the supermarket, before I went home to set it up and play. It did take all my will power, though, especially because the box had been sitting in my car since lunchtime when I picked it up from the post office.
So, I finally got home and opened it. It felt like Christmas. 
It was quite easy to set it up, I've put it under and in front of the TV, plugged the USB to the back of my Xbox 360, the power to the wall, and turned on my Xbox. It detected it immediately, downloaded a software update, then went to the initial calibration process where, when it told me to stay silent I wanted to laugh at the sounds coming off the TV. After that, with the Kinect Adventures disc inside I was playing my first adventure in no time at all.
Even without going through the calibration for myself, I was able to play the River Rush adventure with no problems at all. The precision of the movements and the sensitivity and speed of it all is jaw dropping. After successfully completing it, my wife went to set up her Kinect ID and we found out our only problem with Kinect: lack of space. Even when calibrating oneself for the Kinect ID, we could not move to the squares at the back, meaning we don't have enough space for it. And my living room is not that small.
So, investigating a bit more, actually the sensor was not seeing my head, which was not a problem when I was playing River Rush, but it became a problem when I wanted Kinect to recognize me, and would probably be a problem for other games or other bits of Kinect Adventures. So I set up the sensor's angle to see my head but not my feet. Still a problem but less of a problem. By the way, the calibrating utilities are really good and easy to use.
Going back to Kinect Adventures, I could not play it together with my wife because we were both falling into the "good" space, as the game calls it, which is good for one player, but we needed to be within the "best" space for the game to allow two players.
After some measurements and considering several options, today I am going to B&Q to buy a shelf that will allow me to put the sensor on top and behind the TV, setting it two to three of feet behind its current position, and that should be enough. I will post more after I have this set up, but even without seeing my whole body, yesterday I was *very* impressed with Kinect. It is really well worth getting one.
After my wife went to bed I kept playing... and Kinect Adventures takes photos of the player in key moments of the game, so, I will leave you with me looking quite stupid while having loads of fun:
