Ouster and DXOMARK Announce Strategic Collaboration on the World’s First Native Color Lidar with REV8

DXOMARK is proud to announce today its strategic collaboration with Ouster, a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI. This partnership aims to test and optimize the next generation of sensing technologies, starting with the new Ouster Rev8 OS family, the world’s first native color lidar.

As sensing technologies evolve toward more complex, multi-modal systems, the need for accurate, reliable, and standardized performance evaluation becomes critical. This collaboration brings DXOMARK’s 20 years of expertise in image quality testing and sensor benchmarking to Ouster’s cutting-edge digital lidar technology to support the development and optimization of next-generation sensing products. Through rigorous independent testing, DXOMARK enables Ouster to maximize system performance and image quality for the most demanding real-world environments.

During the development of Ouster Rev8, DXOMARK provided a comprehensive analysis of Image Sensor Processing and conducted a series of advanced tests to assess and optimize system performance in real-world scenarios. These included computation and evaluations of color fidelity, environmental robustness, and perception accuracy under varying lighting and weather conditions, ensuring Rev8 meets the requirements of next-generation use cases.

Where traditional cameras struggle in adverse weather and lidar has historically been limited to near-infrared light, Ouster’s Rev8 native color lidar bridges the gap. By expanding the sensor’s vision to the full range of human-visible color, Rev8 captures a massive increase in environmental data with intuitive visual information. Critically, even when objects exceed the lidar’s detection range, integrated color data continues to provide a rich stream of information, maintaining visual awareness where depth data cannot reach. With structural and color data fused through physics at the silicon level, the system requires no complex calibration, allowing the industry to instantly pair lidar precision with computer vision to power the next era of Physical AI.

About Ouster: Ouster is a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI across industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure. With a unified platform of high-performance digital lidar, cameras, AI compute, sensor fusion and perception software, and AI models, Ouster delivers solutions that improve quality of life in the physical world. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Ouster has a global presence serving thousands of customers with offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.