[dllu]

At 865 nm, laser eye damage is due to the laser being focused by your eyeball into a small spot on your retina. This is in contrast to other wavelengths, like 1550 nm, which do not get focused, but can instead damage the surface or your eyeball at much higher powers.

However, when there are many 865 nm lidars around, each one gets focused to a different spot in your retina, so it is not any more likely to cause damage than a single lidar. Thanks to the low power of the Ouster lidar, it is Class 1 eye-safe at any distance.

If there were a hundred high-power 1550 nm lidars all pointed at the surface of your eyeball, however, I wonder if it would be more likely to cause damage?

[dmix]

I just imagined everyone walking around with Google-glasses style AR lenses everywhere they go with LIDAR protection built-in!