Importantly, Microsoft has used this ground-up redesign to tackle the issue of living room size, which tends to be smaller in many countries outside of the US, and its engineers claim that a tall person can be fully tracked even within a few feet of the sensor.

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These love to pretend that they live in one of the world's toughest urban jungles, beset by warring gangs and malevolent Nature, when, in reality, the biggest danger they face is that the person behind the counter at Starbucks might mis-hear their order for a double tall, decaf, non-fat latte with a vanilla shot and make their coffee with full-fat milk by mistake.

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