With better and faster laser scanning devices there is a demand for fast and robust surface reconstruction algorithms. Additionally, the growing market of consumer scanning devices requires methods that are capable of remaining performant on consumer level hardware. In this talk I'll discuss some recent work on fast and robust L1 surface reconstruction and a less robust but faster method for dynamic points clouds, and how these methods can be used to complement each other. Some further motivation will be provided in a short discussion of LiDAR and more recent consumer scanners like Google's Project Tango and Kinect-like webcam offerings from Intel.