article_snippet.sent: To scan the surroundings, CyArk uses a portable, eye-safe laser device based on a technology called Lidar -- a portmanteau of the words light and radar.
article_snippet.sent: CyArk accurately maps a physical area much like a radar, but using lasers instead of radio waves.
article_snippet.sent: We have a very powerful laser that sends a beam of light  pulsing 50,000 times per second," explains Kacyra, "which means that it's collecting 50,000 points of everything that's in front it as it pulses up and down and in a circular fashion, generating the geometry of everything that's in the space around it.
article_snippet.sent: In other words, "We gave the world a 3D laser scanner that has revolutionized how reality is captured.