From 325 metres away, your eyes can probably distinguish a person’s head from their body – and not much else. But a new laser-based device can create a three-dimensional model of their face.

“What we’ve gone through the past few games, where we’ve played well and had nothing to show for it … they finally got rewarded for the work they put in for the last little while.

A multi-institutional research team from the USA and the UK has developed a single-photon time-of-flight LiDAR system capable of producing high-resolution 3D images of objects or scenes at ...