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Re:Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro by dzhiurgis on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:28PM (#22895942)
Wonder how well it would work as night vision?

Also my biggest wish with this tech is to be able to use with a 3D printer when you need to add a replacement part or some sort of shim.

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Re:Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro by adamczi on Friday April 17, 2020 @12:40PM (#22900505)
one of the "real" applications of Lidar, which is aerial photogrammetry, is to map terrain from the sky. It is very often done at night, as there is very little traffic. You should be fine with measuring objects in the dark with this iPad Lidar as far as I can tell.

About 3D printing - the iPad Lidar seems to have a _very_ low resolution, so for 3D printing you should wait for some next generations of micro-lidars.

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