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I'm surprised it works outdoors, I would think the red light would be impossible to pick out of a high resolution image even with a fine filter.


As far as I understand, these laser scanners work outdoors in daylight:

https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/laser-scan...


> Lasers sweep the surroundings and when they detect a CCD, they fire a bolt of light right at the camera to obliterate any photograph

Color me skeptical. Does it detect the lens in the eye too? And then? Does it obliterate my retina when I look at his yacht?


If you've got a CCD in your eye then ya, I'd be concerned about that.




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