Compute Infrastructure · Photonics · Long Read The compute layer ate the photonics industry while nobody was looking. A LiDAR sensor that cost seventy-five thousand dollars in 2015 now costs less than a thousand. The compute required to actually use…
Urban Photonics · Sensing · Essay The Sensor Has Eaten the City: Why Urban Photonics Needs a Better Story Than “Smart” Every era picks a metaphor for how the mind works and, shortly afterward, picks the same metaphor for how…
Consumer Electronics · Depth Sensing · 2026 Outlook The Quiet Repositioning of 3D Sensing in Consumer Electronics: Where ToF Actually Stands in 2026 Five years ago, depth cameras were going to be everywhere. Every flagship phone, every tablet, every pair…
Industry Report · Global Photonics · 2025–2026 The State of Global Photonics 2025–2026: A €50 Billion Industry Navigating Quantum Breakthroughs and Trade Turbulence Photonics has quietly become one of the defining industries of the decade. Germany alone now books €50…
Photonics · Laser Sensing · Remote Sensing A Complete Guide to LiDAR: How Light Detection and Ranging Works LiDAR has quietly become one of the most important sensing technologies of the decade — mapping forests, cities, coastlines, and the streets…
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