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Microsoft seems like a good idea with a 10 billion contract with the Hololens, but with Microsoft Kinect DK, they are now saying Oct 2022 for shipments, and the Kinect DK is too heavy anyway. Oak AI uses Intel Movidius, and I just can't trust Intel after buying and basically killing Movidius, and now killing off Realsense. Livox lidars (Now owned by DJI) are awesome and low cost, but too heavy. Anyone else have experience with all the other stereo camera companies or lightweight lidar startups out there? The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: 4 [?] 5 8 We are unable to convert the task to an issue at this time. Please try again. The issue was successfully created but we are unable to update the comment at this time. @pkrush Copy link Author @pkrush pkrush commented Aug 18, 2021 * edited This issue I posted made the front page of hacker news and people are giving advice there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28225065 I hate to bash Velodyne on the Velabit, as this has to be a CoVid19/ Chipageddon thing. ZED Stereolabs is popular. Any comments? If you are a manufacturer and you're really serious about putting stereo vision into your product the Embedded Vision Summit is a great place to learn that there are no great baby step routes to do this, like Realsense. It's a place to learn that you have to spend 5+ digits to buy IP for a custom ASIC. inuitive-tech.com and admarila? (I spelled this wrong). OK, this is 3 year old advice, but I am guessing it's still true. I need to look again at all the companies including Structure I was told to look at https://www.ids-imaging.us/ ensenso-stereo-3d-camera.html and devices based on the Infineon lidar, such as the pieye Nimbus 3D camera @ThatGeoGuy Copy link Contributor @ThatGeoGuy ThatGeoGuy commented Aug 18, 2021 Full disclosure: I used to work for Occipital from 2018 to 2020. I also maintain the present Realsense Rust package. Lastly, I'm pulling a lot of this from my current employer's industry map. This is a hard issue, and I think what you're looking for is going to depend on your use-case. Especially so given some of your reasoning. Anyways, I'll dig into some alternative options in a bit more detail: 1. Don't leave RealSense. Any hardware you have still works. The obvious and immediate trade-off is that firmware updates won't continue, and that someone will need to continue to build & maintain librealsense as time goes on. If you're just looking to maintain existing sensors for small projects or exploratory purposes, this is probably okay. However, if you look at the existing issue list, you might find that somewhat of a dealbreaker that support won't be forthcoming. 2. Structure Core. Again, see my disclaimer above. This is the closest thing on the market today to a D435i. However, the drawbacks are that the SDK is not open-source as librealsense is, and there will be a learning curve associated with learning Occipital's Structure SDK as well (although, that's going to be true regardless of the sensor you choose here). Additionally, the sensor is more expensive than a D435i but it does cross off a lot of your needs specifically: it doesn't use an Intel ASIC and does not weigh much differently than a D435i. 3. Luxonis OAK-D. You did mention that you didn't want to use OAK AI, which I presume means this, but I'm not sure. It's gotten a fair bit of attention recently though, and the hardware doesn't seem on its way out in the next few years so I don't see why it would be a huge drawback. 4. PMDTech. If you're looking specifically to replace ToF sensors like the L515 you might be able to find something here. Unfortunately they don't have an SDK at all, much less an open one like librealsense, so I'm not sure what the software story is there. 5. Orbec. Their SDK exists, is not open, and is only C++11 as far as I know. That may be a game-changer if you're using librealsense for language support. I'll admit I haven't done extensive review on Orbec, but I can attest that peers have said good things about them. 6. ZED Stereolabs, as previously mentioned. I've also never used these and don't know much about them. If I had one on hand I could let you know my impressions, but I regrettably don't. Those are the top 5 current options as far as I can tell, to replace something like the D435 or D435i. The topic is right: this segment of the market is pretty harsh and there will definitely be a gap with regards to RealSense disappearing. I'd make a pitch here for my current employer (TangramVision) to say that we actually want to solve this on the software end (making it possible to use all these disparate sensors in a single system), but I don't want to turn this into a direct ad for myself, and I couldn't make any promises regardless. 8 Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment Assignees No one assigned Labels None yet Projects None yet Milestone No milestone Linked pull requests Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue. None yet 2 participants @ThatGeoGuy @pkrush * (c) 2021 GitHub, Inc. * Terms * Privacy * Security * Status * Docs * Contact GitHub * Pricing * API * Training * Blog * About You can't perform that action at this time. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. 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