On Discord

Moderator: Mike

Participant: Chris / Guang

Question List

Mike greets the audience and gives a brief introduction to ROVR for newcomers joining the AMA.

1. (to Guang) What is going on at ROVR?
2. (to Guang) What is the ROVR Open Dataset, and why is ROVR building an open dataset?
3. (to Guang) What makes the ROVR dataset unique?
4. (to Guang) Some say LiDAR isn’t needed because Tesla doesn’t use it. What do you think?
5. (to Chris) How extensive is the geographical coverage and diversity of ROVR’s data?
6. (to Chris) There are big datasets like Waymo and nuScenes. How is ROVR different or better?
7. (to Chris) Are you also planning any benchmark tasks, like what KITTI or nuScenes have done?
8. (to Chris) A lot of datasets are great for research but can’t really be used in commercial products. So—can teams actually use ROVR data in commercial applications?
9. (to Guang) What is ROVR’s overall vision and future roadmap?

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Mike:

• Greet the audience and give a brief introduction of ROVR for those joining the AMA for the first time.