![]() ![]() The new sensor is the latest attempt from Apple to try to make AR a key part of its apps and software, an effort that the company has been working on since at least 2017, when the company first introduced its ARKit platform for developing augmented reality iOS apps. The LIDAR sensor on the new iPad Pro Image: Apple It claims that by combining the depth information from the LIDAR scanner with camera data, motion sensors, and computer vision algorithms, the new iPad Pro will be faster and better at placing AR objects and tracking the location of people. Driverless cars in particular have been relying on the laser sensors for years to detect objects and build 3D maps of their surroundings in near real time as a way of “seeing” other cars, trees, and roads.Īpple’s miniaturized scanner isn’t quite at that level, but the company says that it’ll be able to measure the distance to objects over 16 feet away (or five meters). LIDAR - which stands for “Light Detection and Ranging” - isn’t a new technology. Apple announced a new iPad Pro yesterday, and one of the biggest additions was a new LIDAR system on the rear camera, which Apple argued was the missing piece for revolutionary augmented reality applications. ![]()
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