Velodyne High-Def LIDAR – Steve Jurvetson

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

ƒ/3.2

200 mm

1/200

160

Eye-catching techno-bling on the roof of the autonomous VW Junior 2.

$75K, with 64 laser beams, spinning like a whirling dervish, capturing a 3D map of the world and its inhabitants.

This was a lucky catch, as it is spinning around 10 times/second, collecting 1.3 million 3D datapoints/second.

Here is a Radiohead music video made with it.

And technical details.

3 responses to “Velodyne High-Def LIDAR”

energy88

Mar 5, 2011 at 9:20 pm

great

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jurvetson

Nov 17, 2012 at 5:53 pm

and here is what it captures

The latest versions of the Google robo car hide all this rich detail unfortunately. I found it mesmerizing… I think that’s why they are not going to lead with that.

The lawyers have taken over at Google by the way. It’s quite remarkable.

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Yuki.Tian

Apr 22, 2016 at 5:52 am

Hi Steve, the LiDAR photo looks great. May i use as our banner for LiDAR related case study on our corporate website? Looking forward to your reply:) Tks. Touch me at: yuki.tian@renishaw.com

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