LiDAR sensors are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in consumer technology, appearing in devices such as the Apple iPhone Pro, Apple Vision Pro, Waymo self-driving cars, home robots, and more. Once confined to specialized industrial systems, depth-sensing hardware is now embedded in everyday consumer platforms.
We show that these consumer LiDARs can do more than measure visible depth—they can also see hidden objects around corners. Using smartphone-grade hardware, we demonstrate non-line-of-sight (NLOS) 3D reconstruction, tracking, and camera localization.
This work transforms off-the-shelf consumer LiDAR into plug-and-play NLOS imaging systems. In doing so, this work brings NLOS imaging out of the lab and into the hands of everyday users. Democratizing this capability opens the door to a new generation of applications in robotics, mobile perception, AR, and beyond.