Google Debuts Soli-Based Radar API Standard in Collaboration with Ford

9to5Google is reporting that Google has begun partnering with Ford on an open API standard for the advancement of general-purpose consumer radar integration via Soli. This new standard, names Ripple, is intended to promote more broad usage of Soli-based radar technology which tends to be lower-cost, lower-power, and cheaper than conventional radar.

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Lumotive Helps to Advance Lidar 2.0 via Open API

Lumotive, a company dedicated to the development of solid-state lidar systems which are used in the computer vision industries, has announced a new API that is intended to unify hardware and software integration of lidar systems. The company is hoping this new open API will develop into an industry standard.