Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
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#2I thought distance meters were already built in in all smartphones using the camera's laser.
Re: Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
#3I thought distance meters were already built in in all smartphones using the camera's laser.
Camera's don't have lasers (at least in smartphones).
You could use infrared with two cameras to do depth measurement like the Kinect and the Leap Motion, but I'm unaware of any smartphones currently doing this.
Re: Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
#4Useful product, although I'm dismayed its not a device that can build a point cloud of the whole room yet (and use said point cloud for rendering on a mobile device, as well as high-resolution measurements).
Look what tech innovation has done to my expectations of products :(
Room scanning point cloud with Kinect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhg3_ZgRK68
Boiler Room Point Cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1l0X46rOAU
Point cloud of living room: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6eRG3Q27Lw
Re: Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
#5Useful product, although I'm dismayed its not a device that can build a point cloud of the whole room yet (and use said point cloud for rendering on a mobile device, as well as high-resolution measurements). Look what tech innovation has done to my expectations of products :( Room scanning point cloud with Kinect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhg3_ZgRK68 Boiler Room Point Cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1l0X…
This device has better range and better accuracy than kinect(less than 2mm error instead of 5-25mm at 2m distance).
Re: Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
#6Useful product, although I'm dismayed its not a device that can build a point cloud of the whole room yet (and use said point cloud for rendering on a mobile device, as well as high-resolution measurements). Look what tech innovation has done to my expectations of products :( Room scanning point cloud with Kinect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhg3_ZgRK68 Boiler Room Point Cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1l0X…
Hey, my name is Toby from Senic.
We're focusing on these simple solutions for the building industry first because they are under really high cost and time pressure and it help them the most.
With our SDK and API, it's a really flexible product. We're already working on integrating it into different robots etc for some of the mentioned functions. If you have any good suggestions, please drop me a line.
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#7Looks like the website wasn't totally ready? The partner logos are all the same, and what does Square have to do with it?
Re: Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
#8Useful product, although I'm dismayed its not a device that can build a point cloud of the whole room yet (and use said point cloud for rendering on a mobile device, as well as high-resolution measurements). Look what tech innovation has done to my expectations of products :( Room scanning point cloud with Kinect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhg3_ZgRK68 Boiler Room Point Cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1l0X…
If they used a standard Kinect and sold an iPad app, they'd end up selling it for 99 cents because "it's just an app".
But sell a $30 device for $149 and you can make much more money per customer. Much easier to build a sustainable business that way.
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#9I know YC typically gives small investments which works well enough for web startups, but do they give more to hardware companies like Senic that need things like materials, machines and parts?
Re: Senic (YC S13) builds a laser distance meter for smartphones
#10I thought distance meters were already built in in all smartphones using the camera's laser.
Camera's don't have lasers (at least in smartphones). You could use infrared with two cameras to do depth measurement like the Kinect and the Leap Motion, but I'm unaware of any smartphones currently doing this.
How does the autofocus work?