It’s two weeks before the American launch of the Xbox One, and Microsoft has put together a decent-length demo showing off the Xbox One’s Dashboard in real-time. No canned animations or preproduced visuals here; instead, two of the Xbox team’s executives take viewers through a live demo of some of the Xbox One’s capabilities.

I liked the way the Kinect 2.0 sensor follows people around the room as they talk without using motors, and I was impressed by the quick switching between tasks using just voice commands. Since Xboxes are often set up in households with more than one user, I also liked what I saw about how the Xbox One will handle multiple profiles – people are recognised and signed in by the Kinect sensor when it sees them, and the Xbox One can even switch between each person’s profile on the fly.

But enough blathering; see it in action for yourself: