STMicroelectronics MEMS Mirrors Chosen for Intel RealSense Recently, Intel announced that STMicroelectronics has been chosen to provide MEMS micro-mirrors for their RealSense High-Resolution LiDAR camera. Why are MEMS mirrors highly ideal for LiDAR, what is the L515, and how will it help with vision systems? Why are MEMS mirrors ideal for LiDAR? Light Detection And Ranging, or LiDAR, is a vision technology that uses a beam of light (almost always a laser), to measure the distance between itself and a target object. However, instead of ranging a single point source, LiDAR scans the area in front of them to create 2D distance maps of their surroundings, and this can allow a computer system to identify obstacles and objects.