Two historians on a mission to preserve historic structures in Ethiopia inadvertently turned a cutting-edge 3D scanning device into a tool for creating works of art. Some lidar technologies can ...

LIDAR – or Light Detection and Ranging – is the technology most autonomous vehicles use in order to pinpoint their location in 3D space. Unlike radar sensors and cameras, LIDAR scanners can ...

Technology Portable laser scanner creates colour 3D images of surfaces or objects Lidar uses lasers to create 3D images, but these can be hard to interpret because they are black and white.

News 3D laser scanner possibly destined for Apple's 'iPhone 8' expected to add facial recognition, future AR use Mike Wuerthele 14 Wed Feb 15 2017, 02:19 PM EST · 3 minute read ...

Pepperl+Fuchs has combined laser pulse ranging and piezoelectric 2D scanning to create 3D point clouds. Adopting mems scanner technology from the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ...

Unusually, the spring itself is the key to the technology. The device at the end of the wand is a conventional 2D LIDAR scanner that bounces lasers beams off nearby objects (it has a range of 30 ...

In other words, LiDAR is a way to figure out what's going on around you using laser beams. Sounds pretty awesome, right? It is cool, but its inclusion in the new iPhone is merely the latest ...

The less expensive 5.4-inch and 6.1-inch ‌iPhone‌ 12 models are said to be missing the LiDAR scanner, with the technology being regarded as a "pro" feature.

Of course, this is all speculation based on the rumor that the iPhone 12 Pro will indeed have a LiDAR scanner; Apple could simply opt to put a new lens in the rear-camera array instead.