Microsoft MVP Josh Blake of InfoStrat demonstrates the difference between Kinect v1 sensor and Kinect v2 sensor_for Windows with a performance on how each version of Kinect for WIndows tracks skeletal movements. Blake shows a side-by-side comparison of the Kinect v1 and Kinect v2 sensors and points out how much of an improvement the Kinect v2 sensor is over the Kinect v1 and shows off the newly released SDK 2.0. Blake shows that the Kinect v2 sensor tracks more joints than the Kinect v1 sensor, as well as track more people at once than with the Kinect v1 sensor.
According to the Kinect for Windows Blog, when asked how much_the skeletal sensor capabilities benefit the_Kinect v2 sensor versus the Kinect v1 sensor, Blake explains: