Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro
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Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro
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#2... the name LIDAR is a play on RADAR, but instead of using dangerous RAdio waves, it uses infrared light.
hmmm...
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#3I would be curious to know if this could be used (with a heavy dose of software and a rotating mount) to replace a Matterport scanner for real estate agents. That would be a $2495-$3995 cost for device, a fixed cost of $19-$29 per house walkthrough and a $49-$149/mo hosting fee. Seems like a boatload of cash could be made for a first-to-market product here.
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#4Lidar tech sounds really nice. But as someone how still tries to figure stuff out. Where is the difference of a Time of Flight Sensor and a Lidar sensor? Where are the differences and what are the advantages between these two sensors?
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#5Lidar tech sounds really nice. But as someone how still tries to figure stuff out. Where is the difference of a Time of Flight Sensor and a Lidar sensor? Where are the differences and what are the advantages between these two sensors?
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#6Lidar tech sounds really nice. But as someone how still tries to figure stuff out. Where is the difference of a Time of Flight Sensor and a Lidar sensor? Where are the differences and what are the advantages between these two sensors?
Lidar is a time of flight sensor. “Time of flight” is the name for the method in which they time
The pulses yo sense depth. In practice, when someone says “time of flight camera”, they’re referring to a broader class of devices that use similar methods. Lidar usually refers to a specific class of time of flight sensors.
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#7... the name LIDAR is a play on RADAR, but instead of using dangerous RAdio waves, it uses infrared light. hmmm...
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#8Lidar tech sounds really nice. But as someone how still tries to figure stuff out. Where is the difference of a Time of Flight Sensor and a Lidar sensor? Where are the differences and what are the advantages between these two sensors?
Lidar is a time of flight sensor. “Time of flight” is the name for the method in which they time The pulses yo sense depth. In practice, when someone says “time of flight camera”, they’re referring to a broader class of devices that use similar methods. Lidar usually refers to a specific class of time of flight sensors.
Thank you so much. Makes totally sense now.
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#9I think LIDAR could be very cool but as the article alludes it definitely has the "Chicken & Egg" problem is that you need the hardware so developers can develop, and you need the software to justify having the hardware. Sounds like even the API isn't on-tap quite yet.
It would definitely be cool if you could e.g. walk around a room and scan it into a home re-modelling app. I know the stated aim is more AR, and that's fine, but I can see apps using LIDAR far beyond that for example a clothing app scanning your body to determine perfect size.
Usage though depends a lot of level of detail, particularly using it to scan people instead of surfaces.
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#10I just got one of these and it's very strange to me Apple did not include any apps on the iPad itself that demonstrates the Lidar hardware. They go to all of the trouble of putting it in there, and then when you turn it on and it's as if it doesn't even exist. Why not just include an app that allows me to play with the data stream?