It's already happening. Lidar allows the iPhone and iPad Pros to start AR apps a lot more quickly, and build a fast map of a room to add more detail. A lot of Apple's core AR tech takes advantage ...

The unit will then build a map of its surroundings by processing all of the measurements into a three-dimensional point cloud. For the iPhone 12, the LiDAR sensor is worked into Apple’s ARKit to ...

The more interesting question, though, is what LiDAR will let us do on the iPhone 12 Pro ... In short, the tech lets you scan and map your environment by firing out laser beams, then timing ...

The new RoomPlan Swift API uses the iPhone and iPad's LIDAR sensor to scan indoor spaces — including furniture layouts. Launched at WWDC 2022, RoomPlan is an augmented reality technology that ...

If you have an iPhone Pro ... scientists use green laser light to map the ocean floor (via NOAA). There is, however, a limit to how far LiDAR can penetrate into the water column.

In fact, at one point Apple was said to be developing its own LiDAR sensors for self-driving vehicles. Before you ask: No, the new iPhone is probably not going to map out the mysteries of the ...

I'll be honest: I didn't know that an iPhone was able to do a lidar scan. (The iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, and iPad Pro can all do it.) When I found out that my phone could, I became obsessed with ...

In a new research note (via MacRumors), Barclays analysts Blayne Curtis and Tom O'Malley reveal that Apple will equip its iPhone 15 Pro models with an all-new LiDAR scanner from Sony. And given ...