Ouster Inc. (NASDAQ: OUST) announced its REV8 OS family of digital lidar sensors has been qualified to run on NVIDIA's DRIVE Hyperion platform for level 4 autonomous vehicle development.

The REV8 sensors have met the requirements of DRIVE Hyperion's sensor qualification process as part of NVIDIA's open DRIVE ecosystem. Ouster provides optimized plugins for its sensor portfolio within the NVIDIA DriveWorks SDK, allowing the company's point cloud data to be processed directly by NVIDIA's hardware-accelerated software stack.

The REV8 OS sensors feature what Ouster describes as native color lidar technology, combining color and depth data in a single sensor. The flagship OS1 Max model delivers 256 channels of sensing with a range up to 500 meters. The sensors are designed for automotive-grade applications with cybersecurity and functional safety features.

According to the company, the native color lidar capability aims to streamline data collection and labeling processes for training autonomous vehicle systems by providing inherently fused color and depth information.

"Ouster's work with NVIDIA DRIVE centers on providing the high-performance sensing required for the next generation of autonomous vehicles," said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala. "With Rev8 compatibility on the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform, automotive customers around the world can benefit from superior range and resolution, along with the world's first native color lidar, to enhance safety and performance in the real world."

Ouster is a sensing and perception technology company serving industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure markets. The company is headquartered in San Francisco.