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I think I mentioned IMAQ somewhere along the line. I knew that using VISA was going to be difficult at best, and probably totally impractical, if not impossible. (The documentation is only the "official" use case, some people have done amazing stuff to LabVIEW. Take JKI labs for example.)
The Kinect is a USB device, so it can be loaded into virtual machines, if your host is not Windows. I have also had a prelim look at the PrimeSense, OpenKinect, Cl packages, but was stalled due to work responsibilities.