This was captured without a camera. Every point carries its true 3D position and 48-bit native color, fused in the same photon event.
Here is a palm-lined drive down Beverly Drive in Los Angeles, the trees, the road, and the light all captured with Rev8 lidar alone, accurate from 1 lux to 2 million lux.
Sudden changes in light wreck a camera's exposure. Coming out of a tunnel, the jump from near-darkness to full sun can blind it for the moment it matters most. Lidar does not have that problem.
Ouster lidar measures distance from its own returning light, so there is no exposure to blow out. The same geometry comes back whether the sun is behind the sensor, in front of it, or gone.
Here's a recording from Rain Rocks Rock Shed on Pacific Coast Highway in California with an Ouster OS1 Max:
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Shaluinn Fullove as Chief People Officer at Ouster!
Shaluinn brings over 20 years of leadership experience scaling frontier-technology companies from early stage to over $1 billion in revenue, with pivotal roles at Google, Lyft, Nest, and GM. As Ouster continues to expand its footprint and pioneer sensing solutions for Physical AI, Shaluinn will lead our global people strategy, unifying our teams, driving organizational excellence, and building high-performance talent infrastructure to support our next phase of growth.
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Snow management at a ski resort is repetitive, remote, and weather-dependent work
@microavia runs fully autonomous, self-charging drones on Ouster lidar to monitor and manage snow distribution at resorts worldwide, supporting avalanche detection and mitigation with zero human intervention. The result: weeks added to the season, and patrol kept out of danger
Point clouds can look like photos now. Every point carries 3D geometry and native color in a single pass with Rev8.
Here's the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, captured by a Rev8 OS1 Max. 48-bit color with 116 dB of dynamic range, so the bright glass dome and the shadowed interior both hold detail in a single frame.
Camera infrastructure fails in the dark, rain, and fog, lidar does not.
Our VP of ITS Solutions, Asad Lesani, joined @QNX_News Code the Future podcast to break down how Ouster BlueCity brings real-time spatial intelligence to city streets
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@NewJerseyDOT deployed Ouster BlueCity across 42 highway locations around the stadium. Real-time monitoring of every mainline and ramp, plus instant alerts for wrong-way drivers, stopped vehicles, and pedestrians
Who's winning it?
Rev8 is engineered for performance in safety-critical systems: ASIL-B, SIL-2, and PLd functional safety, ISO 21434 cybersecurity.
With up to 256 channels and 48-bit native color, the same sensor family runs on autonomous vehicles, AMRs and humanoids, and city intersections.
ATL's biggest World Cup match is today: England vs. Argentina, 3PM ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Ouster BlueCity is live across 30+ intersections with @GADeptofTrans, classifying road users and actuating signals in real time
Here's a lidar soccer match, captured with Rev8 OS1 Max
Lidar gives you depth and works in the dark. Cameras give you color and resolution
With @Stereolabs3D now part of Ouster, you get a unified platform for physical AI from one source: digital lidar, stereo and mono cameras, AI compute, and perception software
Every point in the scene carries its true position in 3D space, captured the same way at noon or midnight. With Rev8, each of those points also carries 48-bit native color, so you get the richness of a camera image and the geometry of lidar in one sensor
See this dataset in Ouster Studio: https://t.co/oj3RarG2XG
This image was captured without a camera. This is native color lidar
A camera gives you a flat image full of color and detail. It cannot tell you how far away anything is. Depth has to be inferred, and that inference breaks down in low light, glare, and bad weather
Analog lidar builds every channel from discrete parts. More resolution means more parts, more cost, more failure points
Ouster puts it all in the silicon. The L4 Max chip in the OS1 Max unlocks 256 channels, 20 trillion photons per second, and native color lidar with 3D depth
Cities need detailed traffic data, and residents have a right to privacy. Ouster BlueCity is designed with system-level privacy features at the edge, capturing the movement of vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists while applying privacy enhancing techniques to reduce the collection of identifying features such as facial features.
While native color lidar on Rev8 adds richer detail to that picture, Ouster BlueCity enhances privacy by design, blurring pedestrians directly at the intersection. As a result, municipalities and DOTs get full situational awareness for the traffic team while ensuring privacy for everyone at the crosswalk.