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Try changing the view dropdown to "orbit" and rotating the camera around the laser's origin. Looks to me like in your first image the camera is in the same plane as the laser, but in the second the camera is giving you a top down view of the data. "Orbit" mode will let you change the camera angles and see if that makes a difference.

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