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a) The fake laser sort of does not do this.
b) If you tweak the parameters to look over the whole range you want to look for obstacles it can do what you want. Assuming the obstacles are still in the Kinect field of view. c) If you rewrote it on your own it could do this in realtime, but is not necessary. See b.

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