An exciting new feature called the background removal API has been added to the Kinect For Windows SDK 1.8 which was released last week. Background removal or green screening is a feature many people have been using the Kinect for to varying degrees of success. Prior to the background removal API, getting a decent green screen effect out of the Kinect required a lot of heavy lifting and creative thinking because the depth data from the Kinect is too noisy to use for a smooth player mask.