I've got lots of other posts in the works, but this one's a quickie.  I finally got ahold of the camera for the 360.  In just seconds, I had a video chat going with my brother.  For families that are far apart, buying a 360 just might be worth it just because it's so dang easy to set up video chat.

What was more surprising is that I plugged it into my PC, and just as quickly, it was set up as a webcam.  That was lucky for me because my fairly new logitech webcam seems to be having some driver issues with the latest build of Windows Vista.

One drawback is that there is no built-in mic, which gets a little annoying if you trying to show someone that Jenna can say "apple", "meow-meow", "ma-ma", and "da-da" on command.

Another drawback is that there is no fullscreen, or even large screen option.  Hopefully that will be rememdied with a software release.  Or perhaps I can write a video chat program with XNA express.  Oooh, that's a good idea.  I hope the APIs support that.