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I've seen a human scale version of this done with the Kinect. An artist in NYC was doing it quite a while ago and had a showing in 3Dward. I saw the digitizer at Maker Faire this weekend and was impressed at the quality.

I'm guessing the res on this thing is better than that offered by rotating a Kinect around an object. It certainly requires a lot less space!

For something like that, I'd like to see someone put a bunch of leap controllers/other stuff on a hula hoop, and make models that way.

Interesting idea. The issue is that (I'm guessing) you'd also need some intense software to decipher the image and convert it into a 3D file.

It seems like this particular idea is more realistic with something like a kinect, which has more direct access to point clouds, etc

The Leap seems optimized to detect hands and pointer things. There is currently no point cloud you can access either.

That is true, reference (inside SO answer):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17938890/leap-motion-poin...