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The Kinect has a field of view of 57º, I do not know any mean to change that other than using an optical adapter. You can see the specs here.

A field of view of 180º for a Kinect seems like a bug...

If 57º is too narrow, the obvious solution if you can afford it would be to use one or more additional devices.

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