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Really wish 3d lidar costs would come down. Everyone is designing for car performance and price points it seems. I have a ton of applications I could throw on

Really wish 3d lidar costs would come down. Everyone is designing for car performance and price points it seems. I have a ton of applications I could throw one of these on at 1k$.

derek_frome 8y ago
Costs are definitely coming down. The OS-1 sensor is 1/6 the price of Velodyne's 64 channel sensor. Ouster has been pretty explicit about our intent to keep driving down prices, and we have significant structural advantages covered in the article that will allow us to do so in the coming months and years.
- karmicthreat 8y ago
  Yea, my space is mostly industrial so its a more cost sensitive area. Out of curiosity, this artifact with the van in the below picture common with flash lidars? https://imgur.com/a/OI4UZt9 https://imgur.com/a/OI4UZt9 I am guessing the van is painted with something that strongly absorbs your laser frequencies (black paint). Is this something that your lidar is working to get around?
  - derek_frome 8y ago
    Yeah - we're actually exploring how to address the industrial market more effectively right now. There's a lot of interest in moving from 2D to 3D lidar. Part of that is probably just the resolution you're seeing on the point cloud (i.e. if it were up on a 4k OLED you'd see it a lot better than you do on that screenshot) and part of it is definitely that lidar as a broad category has a comparatively harder time with this type of surface than other surfaces. That's why it's super important when comparing lidar units to see what reflectivity they're quoting. 80% vs 10% reflectivity typically reduces range significantly. PS if you want to get in touch directly, my email is derek.frome at ouster dot io
bmc7505 8y ago
If you don't need 3D, 2D LIDAR is pretty cheap right now: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4010 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4010
- dllu 8y ago
  That one only has 12 m range. The 2D lidars from Hokuyo, SICK, etc with similar range to the Ouster OS-1 (which has 140 m range) cost thousands of dollars.

Really wish 3d lidar costs would come down. Everyone is designing for car performance and price points it seems. I have a ton of applications I could throw one of these on at 1k$.

derek_frome 8y ago

Costs are definitely coming down. The OS-1 sensor is 1/6 the price of Velodyne's 64 channel sensor. Ouster has been pretty explicit about our intent to keep driving down prices, and we have significant structural advantages covered in the article that will allow us to do so in the coming months and years.

karmicthreat 8y ago
Yea, my space is mostly industrial so its a more cost sensitive area. Out of curiosity, this artifact with the van in the below picture common with flash lidars? https://imgur.com/a/OI4UZt9 https://imgur.com/a/OI4UZt9 I am guessing the van is painted with something that strongly absorbs your laser frequencies (black paint). Is this something that your lidar is working to get around?
- derek_frome 8y ago
  Yeah - we're actually exploring how to address the industrial market more effectively right now. There's a lot of interest in moving from 2D to 3D lidar. Part of that is probably just the resolution you're seeing on the point cloud (i.e. if it were up on a 4k OLED you'd see it a lot better than you do on that screenshot) and part of it is definitely that lidar as a broad category has a comparatively harder time with this type of surface than other surfaces. That's why it's super important when comparing lidar units to see what reflectivity they're quoting. 80% vs 10% reflectivity typically reduces range significantly. PS if you want to get in touch directly, my email is derek.frome at ouster dot io

bmc7505 8y ago

If you don't need 3D, 2D LIDAR is pretty cheap right now: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4010 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4010

dllu 8y ago
That one only has 12 m range. The 2D lidars from Hokuyo, SICK, etc with similar range to the Ouster OS-1 (which has 140 m range) cost thousands of dollars.