Maybe I did not express myself accurately enough. I work in VFX, and my language is not always as precise as it could be. But certainly for us this is the diffe

Maybe I did not express myself accurately enough. I work in VFX, and my language is not always as precise as it could be. But certainly for us this is the difference in application. Using a two camera input, the best we could hope to get was a depth map. Typically, it is reliable for at most one or two reliable levels of depth, useful for foreground/background separation. Maybe also a crude depth map, useful for fog. With Lidar we could all that plus normal information (i.e. face orientation). However, I concede your point. The core difference is one of accuracy.