[derek_frome]

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]

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

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]

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