iPhone 12 Pro Allows You to Measure Someone's Height Instantly Using LiDAR Scanner

[edfoo]

Doesn’t seem to work for me on my 12pro. Keeps telling me to move farther away and the closer.

You're doing it wrong.
Not suppose to selfie.
🤣 🤣 🤣

 

[miamialley]

This is going to destroy a lot of mens' fantastical belief that they are 6'0".

 

[jimbobb24]

I'm 5'5 and the only people who give a damn about my height are other people. Height isn't a measure of your worth, y'all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is a measure of social sexual status. Just like money for guys and beauty for girls. It is what it is. Obviously not a measure of personal value.

 

[threeonezero]

Lidar is also used to measure speed like radar. who's going to come out with the first radar gun app

 

[HiRez]

1, this is trivial to photoshop.

It's not actually that trivial with Photoshop, you'd have to know the lens used, and the exact distance from the subject when the photo was taken. And even then it wouldn't be all that accurate because you probably have the phone angled (not perfectly straight on) and you have lens distortion (which isn't necessarily linear). Furthermore, the subject probably isn't standing straight up, but that's also going to be a problem with lidar.

 

[decypher44]

Just tried it with my wife. Spent 5 minutes having her move, stay in place, me moving, etc. Didn’t work at all and now she’s annoyed. 😂

 

[Royksöpp]

You could do this with the iPad Pro. There was a guy in another thread that said he used it to measure people for their coffin sizes. 🤨

 

[crawdad62]

Can I measure heights of trees with it?

I‘m interestEd about this use as well.

 

[T-R-S]

doe it work if they wearing heals?

 

[canned_tuna_og]

Commercial: Really? 145 huh? Whelp, my new iPhone 12 Pro Max says here you're clocking in at 155... (*Hot chocolate thrown in face*). Voiceover: "Get your significant other a new iPhone this Christmas."

 

[mackinmike]

Same as Time of Flight sensor in s20. Measures height, distance to objects, dimensions, etc.

 

[yurc]

As person working on 3D CAD, I hope some engineers developing kind of LIDAR based 3D scanner to measure dimension. I often converting object manually to 3D measuring manually either with digital caliper or my trusty ruler. It would very convenient way just shooting by camera.

My Xperia phone can scanned small object directly to 3D but quality of file is leave a lot to be desired.

 

[Macsucks93]

Now when are they going to add a weight detecting feature so girls on tinder stop lying?

 

[Macsucks93]

1, this is trivial to photoshop.

And 2… what is this Tinder obsession with people’s height? 🤨

Well, its more like “what is the European and American female obsession with height”?

It does make alot of sense that an American company thought of this. Im sure all of the height supremacist shallow women who reside in the countries that make up apples largest market (america and europe), will love it.

 

[kovalchuk71]

Might as well add an “estimate bmi” feature while they’re at it.

Makeup thickness in mm would be nice as well.....

 

[Deinocheirus]

Just what I needed.
Likely the inaccuracy is +- 1 inch at best. I've never read anywhere that the measure app is accurate. But maybe the LIDAR scanner has improved on that.

Maybe, but I doubt it. AR measuring has been a gimmick for anything other than very rough approximate and can't be used as a tool at all. If I'm trying to figure out whether a piece of furniture will fit within a margin of 5 inches, sure. It's fine for that. But its so different each time you measure that I wouldn't use it for anything requiring less tolerance than that, which is virtually all kinds of measuring.

 

[macduke]

This is going to be pretty useful for measuring my kids. I swear the growth spurts come out of nowhere.

 

[matrix07]

If you need LIDAR to determine whether someone is the height they say they are then what’s the point?

Why someone needs to be serious on a joke. 🤔

What our society has become?..
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So much for privacy. Can it give us their other measurements as well?

Yep. I want to know her bra cup. 😅

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Anyone check to see how accurate it is

Just did my wife and I and it nailed it.

 

[BobVB]

Doesn’t seem to work for me on my 12pro. Keeps telling me to move farther away and the closer.

Doesn't work on mine either. I told my subject 'maybe you're not a person' but they weren't amused.

 

[kovalchuk71]

Nah, just wear a big hat and thick soled shoes and that 5'8 guy is gonna come out measured at over 6'

George Constanza wore Timberlands, and look where he ended up.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Just what I needed.
Likely the inaccuracy is +- 1 inch at best. I've never read anywhere that the measure app is accurate. But maybe the LIDAR scanner has improved on that.

LIDAR has definitely improved the accuracy of Measure. It’s a little freaky. 🤪

 

[Scoob Redux]

I've been waiting for this feature! I can't tell you how many times I've thought, "If only I had a way to remotely measure that random stranger's height, life would be perfect!"

 

[Jony Ive and Co.]

LiDAR and the Measure app is amazing. You can do this too on the 2020 iPad Pro, and it's so accurate (I tested on my iPad Pro)

 

[anshuvorty]

Just think: the current implementation of LiDAR to measure someone's height using a phone is just ridiculous and looks clumsy. When the rumored Apple Glass comes out with LiDAR built-in, measuring someone's height will seem so much more intuitive. All of these features are building up to something big in a next-gen device: the Apple Glass:

• MagSafe in the iPhone 12. This will be the defacto way to charge the Apple Glass, just like the Apple Watch uses a proprietary, but similar charging mechanism
• LiDAR: it will have much more expanded use in the Apple Glass. Apple is just getting started with LiDAR in the iPad Pro and now, the iPhone
• UWB chip: once again, more expanded functionality in the Apple Glass
• 5G: kinda obvious that the Apple Glass will have it. You can't roam around your world and have an AR glass without giving you contextual information through the internet without a data connection. So, the Apple Glass will obviously have it

That's all I can glean from the iPhone 12's functionality that will transfer over to the Apple Glass. My "armchair" analysis.