seems at $$$ per shelf they could buy one for R&D! LOL.

Also, I can't believe that any company in this industry that has numerous engineers and geeks on their payroll, that they don't have at least one employee that didn't get an XboxOne on Friday. Send out a company memo, free lunch for the first person to bring in their xbox for measuring.

Unplugged the emitter from the Xbox to move it off furniture. Pressed the button to turn off Xbox and tv turned off. I think it is using CEC for control. Or it has a blaster on actual console. I'll try to see for sure tomorrow night.

The connect Sensor is the Blaster (same IR as what they use for IR camera Illumination, and for low light amplification gaming and recording).

The controllers also have dual IR receiver/emitters.

Got to test out one tonight with a couple Microsoft employee's. It is a serious device and one we will all need to become innately familiar with. They did a FANTASTIC job on it and there are some serious consumer and professional utilization upgrades on the near term horizons.

They may have executed on the box they've always wanted to build.

Snap dual/multi-source and TV control work well. Some of the voice control is still a tad buggy but from another friend who was on the test team, it has improved drastically in the past couple weeks and there are a couple more calibration updates due before the end of the year. The Kinect sensor works very well, and camera quality especially for Skype rivals some of the best 1080p VTC systems out there including zoom/focus and digital ptz.