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nomel on May 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inside Look at Valve's New Lighthouse Tracking Sys...

This doesn't use time of flight, it's simple "lighthouse was at this angle when diode triggered".

beambot on May 18, 2015 [–]

I know how Lighthouse works -- I wrote the article. :) I was responding to the GP: "You would be able to get some distance information via the modulation on the signal."

I was telling GP, (1) how Lighthouse cannot use time of flight, and (2) how time of flight works for laser rangefinders.

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