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Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner by ptero on Saturday November 07, 2020 @07:09AM (#25014626)
Even in consumer devices it's not new. Hobbyists pulled lidars from roombas for a while to wire into arduino-driven toys. Nowadays you can just buy inexpensive (and not very good) lidar hardware on aliexpress and such.
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Re:Look inside iPad Pro 11s Lidar Scanner by melling on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:34AM (#25014977)
I remember hearing about LIDAR in the 2003 movie The Italian Job.

https://jorgeonline.me/The-Italian-Job

So, we’ve know about LIDAR for about 20 years.

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