Lidar Is Great for Cars, but It Can Permanently Damage Cameras

Lidar is great for cars, but it can permanently damage cameras

Modern smartphones can survive drops and even take a swim, but they may have met their match – and it's not what anyone expected. The lidar equipment used in cars and stage shows can silently and permanently destroy a camera sensor. Redditor Jeguetelli learned this the hard way.Read Entire Article

Lidar Can Permanently Damage Your Phone's Camera

It was the technological equivalent of staring directly into the Sun.

NAMUGA Unveils Stella-2: Compact, Solid-state Lidar Powered by Lumotive, at Embedded Vision Summit - Edge AI and Vision Alliance

REDMOND, Wash., May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lumotive, a leader in programmable optical semiconductor technology, today announced that NAMUGA Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of advanced camera modules, will debut its first solid-state 3D lidar sensor—Stella-2, powered by Lumotive’s Light Control Metasurface (LCM) technology—at the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit in California. Stella-2 brings software-defined intelligence, a compact form factor…

A user discovers that a self-driving car's LiDAR has irreparably damaged an iPhone's camera. But the risk is not just for smartphones: what other devices are vulnerable to invisible lasers - on macitynet.it Lidar for self-driving cars kills an iPhone's camera