
It's not streaming your face to any remote servers, it's using what it knows about your face as a key to unlock secure storages locally. Additionally, the Kinect light will turn on showing you that it's on. It's just looking when the screen is locked AND the screen saver (power saver) isn't going. Privacy Note: The camera isn't on and looking all the time. You're all set! Now when you sit at your computer and see the Lock Screen, it will look for you. Run through the wizard, except look nicer than this. Press the Start button and type "hello" or "face sign-in" and you'll get here.
Allow it to download and install the new driver. Click "Search automatically for updated driver software". Right-click on "WDF KinectSensor Interface 0". Open Device Manager (Windows Key + X, then press M). If you've already set up your Kinect, refresh it's drivers in the Device Manager. Double-click it to import into your Registry.
Make a text file "kinectdrivers.reg" and put this text in it.
Update the Registry to get Drivers that aren't available yet. It's pretty awesome because my home computer unlocks and logs in when I sit down and look at it. Setting up your Kinect v2 to support Windows Hello on your Windows 10 PC It's worth getting this even if you aren't, if only to see the cool stuff your Kinect can see about you. If you are developing applications, download and install the free SDK 2.0. You do need a decent machine to handle the Kinect for Xbox One, so there's a Kinect Configuration Verifier Tool that can quickly tell you if you're up to spec. It's basically a power brick and a USB 3 bridge to your PC. The Kinect Adapter for Windows is $50 and took me 5 min to set up. AND, most importantly, you can use your existing Xbox One Kinect with your PC with an adapter.
It has a 1080p color camera, IR capabilities that are separate from color, a wider FOV (field of view), and can track 6 skeletons. Fast forward to the days of Xbox One, and the Kinect v2 for Xbox One has changed a lot.
The original version of the Kinect camera had an Xbox version and a PC version, and this sucked for a few reasons.