Lidar used to cost $75,000–here’s how Apple brought it to the iPhone(arstechnica.com)
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Lidar used to cost $75,000–here’s how Apple brought it to the iPhone
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/the-technology-behind-the-iphone-lidar-may-be-coming-soon-to-cars/
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The title implies that LIDAR was $75,000 until Apple put it into the iPhone, but it's just clickbait. The answer to the headline is that it improvements to the tech made it cheaper over the course of a decade. It's like saying "a computer used to cost millions in government funding, but Samsung somehow put one in your pocket"; it skips quite a few notable steps for dramatic effect.
To me this calls the Tesla approach into question. LIDAR is a useful input and clearly it’s viable in consumer hardware
Is this LIDAR and the LIDAR in self-driving cars same? If they are, why can't elon put it in a car when Apple put it in a phone?
Is this LIDAR different from the laser auto focus feature some sony camera sensors have?
TLDR, just like every technology, it got smaller and cheaper.
That's why cheap robovacs can afford to include lidar
That's why cheap robovacs can afford to include lidar