There's no doubt that the Kinect 2.0 sensor add-on that will be included with every Xbox One console is a remarkable piece of hardware, even though it likely boosts the overall cost of Microsoft's next-gen machine by $100. Microsoft actually designed the hardware inside Kinect 2.0 from its Silicon Valley-based Architecture and Silicon Management offices.

One of the hardware pieces in Kinect 2.0 is the time-of-flight camera, which sends out light signals and measures how long it takes for the light to return to the camera. It allows the Kinect 2.0 sensor to create an accurate depth map of a room. In a new post on the Microsoft Fire Hose blog, the company talks more about how members of Microsoft Research teamed up with the Xbox team to solve some issues in getting the camera ready for the new Kinect hardware.