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/map frame is broadcast usually by the navigation stack eg. refer to amcl or gmapping in turtlebot tutorial. Just launching kinect.launch will not give the /map frame.

To add Camera view in rviz, you can change the global frame to one of the kinect's frame (eg depth) or /odom if the robot is up and running.

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