The system consists of a small submersible video camera that captures images every 15 seconds, a depth sensor and electronics for storing data and images.

Kinect has an RGB camera and a depth sensor.

So your laptop would need a depth sensor.

If you didn't need a depth sensor Kinect tech would be available on anything with a webcam, as you say.

The depth sensor consists of an infrared laser projector combined with a monochrome CMOS sensor, which captures video data in 3D under any ambient light conditions.

Raw sensor streams: Access to low-level streams from the depth sensor, color camera sensor, and four-element microphone array.

Argus also supports a wide range of instrumentation, including a depth sensor, altimeter, CTD, sub-bottom profiler, scanning sonar, and side-scan sonar.

Typical sensors include compasses, depth sensors, sidescan and other sonars, magnetometers, thermistors and conductivity probes.

Interactive Projector by Ayotle: an interactive solution that uses a depth sensor to make any real or imaginary surface act like a tactile or contactless interactive device.

Ayotle's expertise centres around the development and implementation of advanced algorithms for computer vision, from video images in all formats, and to the use of 3D cameras or depth sensors.