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The challenge with LIDAR (for the foreseeable future) is ubiquity. If you're building a car, then sure, LIDAR, no questions asked. If you're trying to pair this with say a structure-from-motion pipeline for photogrammetry targeting mobile phones as capture devices then this becomes very very important.

The best data for many applications is often the data you can get at scale.

You'd prefer a $10,000 lidar over a $8 mobile GPU?

it's hard to make a small active sensor that produces enough light to work outdoors on a sunny day.