For people who don't know, the Kinect is not only used for playing Xbox 360 games with gestures.
A large group of hobbyists, developers, university students, and organizations have "hacked"* into the Kinect and utilized its capabilities as a cheap 3D depth sensor. Microsoft has recognized the potential of this movement and released an official Software Development Kit (SDK) so that people can more easily interact with the Kinect's data.
Here are some examples of what people have done, which might spark some ideas for FRC robots!
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r...c-kinect-hacks
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/kinect+hacks