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I run into the same problem when following examples in the book. Then finally figure out you have to take out the 'gpu_' reference and use non-gpu version of the library if your computer does not have GPU, and to change the parameter 'visualize' to true (don't know why it was set to false in the first place). Then you can see the laser beams working in Gazebo and visualize them in rviz.

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