Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are progressing at a rapid pace, notwithstanding Covid-19 constraints. The past 2 months have experienced significant corporate events. These include Amazon’s acquisition of Zoox, Volkswagen’s investments in Argo, Yandex plans to spin-out its AV joint venture with Uber, and LiDAR unicorns (LUnicorns) Velodyne and Luminar announcing plans to go public at multibillion-dollar valuations (more than Zoox!).

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New technologies promise to transform vehicles’ windows into bright, vivid, full-motion video-capable displays. Here, we take a closer look at the potential applications and trends in window displays and how they'll change the driving experience.

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A perfect storm is brewing for consumer electronics marketplace Back Market. The items it specializes in — refurbished smartphones, PCs, tablets and the like — are in high demand as professionals and students work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. In many regions of the world, unemployment has skyrocketed, so consumers are increasingly budget-conscious. Finally, by extending the lifecycle of consumer devices, e-waste — and the pressure to continually upgrade electronics — is reduced.

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In a recent article, I discussed the factors driving the consolidation in the automotive LiDAR industry. I also presented 4 areas ripe for investments, one of which was solid-state LiDAR. The focus of this article is on assessing the approaches and maturity of LiDAR that uses solid-state scanning techniques for beam steering and enables efficient use of photons in space and time.

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Lumotive recently announced the first of two in a series of 3D-sensing products that utilize Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (LCM). With samples available in the fourth quarter of this year, the Lumotive X20 and Z20 LiDAR systems target the automotive and industrial automation markets, respectively.

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