One reddit user found out earlier this month that car-mounted lidar sensors can damage a phone camera under certain circumstances. It was the technological equivalent of staring directly into the Sun.

A car’s lidar sensor can permanently damage your phone camera if you point it directly at it. A Galaxy S24 Ultra owner reported similar damage after attending a laser-heavy light show.

An improved LiDAR Scanner could be beneficial to augmented reality apps, Night mode photos, and camera autofocus. Other rumored iPhone 15 Pro features include an A17 Bionic chip, a USB-C port ...

Public service announcement: don't point your phone camera directly at a lidar sensor. A video recently shared on Reddit demonstrates why. As the camera zooms in on the sensor affixed to the top ...

Pix4D’s PIX4Dcatch real-time kinematic (RTK) system includes a phone and viDoc RTK rover, which provides RTK accuracy for the imagery and LiDAR data ... export it to a USB stick or one drive ...

There's no need to do anything special. Aim your phone's camera and the LiDAR automatically kicks in if necessary. Say you need to measure a physical distance but don't have a ruler or tape measure.

prompting the phone to switch to a shorter lens backed by a separate, healthy image sensor. To assuage the fears of some concerned redditors, this is presumably why lidar doesn’t pose the same ...