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> The OS0 lidar sensor: an ultra-wide field of view sensor with 128 lines of resolution

> The OS2 lidar sensor: a long-range sensor with up to 128 lines of resolution

> Two new 32 channel sensors: both an OS0 and OS2 version

> Price: Starts at $16,000 with volume discounts available

I would LOVE to get my hands on this tech. Maybe in 5-10 years when the price comes down to commodity level for hackers to play around with. :-)

Since LIDARs impact airflow over the top of a car, is there a way to make LIDARs less spherical and more triangular or elliptical? How would that impact the scans and can that impact be corrected/recalibrated mathematically?

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While this is a ~80% discount on other 128 beam sensors, it's unfortunately still out of reach for the hacker community. We absolutely plan to get prices down to an affordable level for individuals in well under 5 years!

Also, Ouster runs a sponsorship program that gives deeply discounted or free sensors to cool projects. If you have a cool idea, shoot me an email: derek.frome at ouster dot io

> deeply discounted or free sensors to cool projects

This is very nice, if I only I had a cool project, I just have lukewarm ones!

How can one apply for a “cool project”?

Email derek.frome at ouster dot io. I'd love to learn about your project!

Might be interesting to add the Ouster sensor to our sensor simulation [1] to give people the ability to play around with the data even if it's outside the price range?

[1] blensor.org

http://data.ouster.io/sample-data-1.13/index.html

Oh, this is interesting! I've been putting together a 6-Kinect rig to take a 3D scan of my body as I go on hormone treatment and an exercise routine, monitoring subtle changes over time.

Does it support Kinect v1 and changing the orientation using the built-in motors?

I also have a few projects using photogrammetry reconstruction of convention booths using 2D images. I've been interested in adding in lidar/pointcloud cameras...

has someone explored what the state of the art is if you just use two 1080p LG laser projectors and 2+ cameras and clever software

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1453431-REG/lg_hf80la...

it's 1080p of resolution in lighting from two angles at 60 fps for like ~100-200 W. if you had some good cameras and some clever and fast software you could use this thing to illuminate anything you need to know about -- a high frequency light probe. i don't think you need coherent light at all or phase control, you'd just like timing control so you can strobe between left and right lights and use the variation to better characterize objects.

whole system seems doable in budgets of ~$8k hardware (total guess...)

Slightly confusing the way you pasted, not sure if intentional. OS0 starts at $6,000 with volume discounts, while the OS2 that starts at $16,000.

Not sure if this fits your project but Intel's new Real Sense Lidar seems pretty cool. Meant for more indoor application though: https://www.intelrealsense.com/lidar-camera-l515/

I'm already thinking of the scrap yards where these might end up when cars with them are totaled by the insurance company :-). But I agree, if they can do exponential improvements in processing then this version will be fairly cheap in roughly 5 years.

About the airflow thing, there's nothing (to my knowledge) preventing you from changing the shape of the enclosure. It's just going to be bigger.

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