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You’ve heard the rumors, and they’re true: Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect camera turns out to be hacktastic. Mouse pointers and picture shuffling? So 2010. Why not control robots with your arms?

The new Kinect is kind of awesome. Just by the numbers, it’s a huge upgrade. You can see (most of) the full walkthrough we saw just a bit ago here at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in the video above.

It remains to be seen whether Apple’s Face ID will be as convenient as Touch ID (it already failed on stage), but at the very least we can’t accuse Apple of not dedicating enough hardware to the task.