I haven't found any definition for Lidar that isn't a speed of light based measurement. Under this definition the Kinect 2 camera is Lidar but the real sense camera isn't because uses parallax.
With the drone the scan space doesn't overlap and it only needs to detect obstacles not fine details. It's trickier when they are scanning all sides of an object at the same time because the projector structured light patterns will tend to interfere with each other.
If intel wants to give me some work the address in the EULA for the SDK is within commute distance. I think the suggested retail price is around $99 which is about the same as the Kinect so that seems realistic. I think they are shipping this year.
