That really depends on the modality of the LiDAR. For the record, the Kinect is techically LiDAR since it is using "Light Detection And Ranging." As for why th

That really depends on the modality of the LiDAR. For the record, the Kinect is techically LiDAR since it is using "Light Detection And Ranging." As for why the Kinect interferes with other units, it's because of the imaging modality (structured light). The sensors interfere with one another because they're largely dependent on detecting a specific pattern of projected dots. If you detect too many dots or if the image gets saturated, you start to have a problem. In the case of traditional scanning LiDAR (e.g. terrestrial LiDAR in the sense of a Leica or Faro or Velodyne unit), this isn't necessarily the same case. Sure, if the two lasers point exactly at each other for a given point over their sweep, then at that point the lasers will saturate the measurement and that specific measurement will not be useful. In time-of-flight based, mirrorless systems, this matters less than one might think. I can see this being consistently a problem when scanning with Velodyne tech since they tend to only rotate about one axis, but for other types of LiDAR I don't think it would be as big of a deal. Granted, then you have to worry about scanning speed and how that affects the final results. Overall, I don't think that unit interference is going to be a significant factor in adoption. LiDAR is a broad technology and it's not easy to make assumptions about the entire industry based on a couple implementations or modalities.