Video: laser dots of the iPad Pro’s new LiDAR scanner in action
The new iPad Pro is the first Apple device equipped with a time-of-flight laser sensor that works similar to the TrueDepth camera in terms of depth mapping, only better. It’s the key stepping stone to Apple’s rumored augmented reality headset, and a new video shows it in action.
Depth points captured by the LiDAR scanner, along with data from onboard cameras and motion sensors, can be passed to new depth frameworks in iPadOS for processing, resulting in a more detailed understanding of the user’s actual environment. And that, girls and boys, is going to power miles better augmented reality experiences than what we have now.
Watch the video below from YouTube channel iPhonedo to see the infrared dots of the new iPad Pro’s LiDAR scanner in action (the fun bit starts at mark 3:59).
Of course, a version of the sensor that has been engineered to fit in the thin and light iPad Pro is less powerful than what NASA or Apple Maps vehicles are using, but it’s still much, much better and faster than the TrueDepth camera on the iPhone X and later.
Aside from being more accurate and reliable, it’s capable of mapping surrounding objects up to 5 meters away whereas the TrueDepth camera works reliably from up to twenty inches away.
Both systems work both indoors and outdoors, as well as in complete darkness, but the LiDAR scanner “operates at the photon level at nano-second speeds,” according to Apple.
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