Although I bought a Kinect since then, I do think it would definitely lower the barrier of entry to use your application. The range is not an issue in my opinion, it looks just like a Kinect 360 depth map. Like I said, I was able to use Record3D to stream this data to my computer with a USB cord but I have no idea how to use this data other than the demo that was provided. If you were interested in implementing this into your program, I recommend emailing the support email (support@record3d.app), the guy is super nice and he walked me through setting up the demo in great detail!
Here is a demo of me using it, if you need more info, please let me know.