Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera

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• Whats_a_lemmy@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Do not point a camera directly at the lidar,” one support page admonishes in no uncertain terms.

  Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

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• besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So how close can you get your eyeballs to the sensor? Even if IR isn’t in the visible spectrum, that doesn’t mean it can’t damage your eyes at high power levels. If anything, its more dangerous because you won’t notice it.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cameras have an IR blocking filter and it still damaged the sensor. I don’t know how they can consider it eye safe. I wouldn’t want to be close to one.

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• Drigo@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The company specifically called out “close-ups” as the problem, meaning that our phones should be safe with distant shots

  Also I think they’re using lidar with a frequency of 1550 nanometer which can’t penetrate the eye or cause damage.

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• SW42@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good. I need one of those and make it wearable for the people wearing smart glasses.

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