Lidar startup Ouster has developed a clever and potentially significant hack: the company figured out how to make the sensors already on its powerful OS-1 lidar units function as a camera ...

LiDAR vs. Camera-Based Systems LiDAR offers several advantages over camera-based systems. While cameras provide a flat representation of the environment in two-dimensional form, LiDAR renders a ...

Inspired by a Arduino based LIDAR system, [Berryjam] decided that he wanted to successfully use an affordable Open Source Laser RangeFinder (OSLRF-01) from LightWare.

On April 22, the same day Tesla held its autonomy event, a trio of Cornell researchers published a research paper that offered some support for Musk's claims about lidar. Using nothing but stereo ...

One reddit user found out earlier this month that car-mounted lidar sensors can damage a phone camera under certain circumstances. It was the technological equivalent of staring directly into the Sun.

A Volvo EX90's lidar sensor was caught on video damaging a smartphone's built-in camera. The lidar's lasers damaged the camera's telephoto lens, which fried certain pixels. Here's a PSA: Don't ...

Their phone's camera was toast, but only because it was close-up and pointed directly at the lidar sensor. Reddit user u/Jeguetelli posted worrying footage of a brand new Volvo EX90 from his ...

LiDAR vs. Camera-Based Systems LiDAR offers several advantages over camera-based systems. While cameras provide a flat representation of the environment in two-dimensional form, LiDAR renders a ...