Should be super useful if you want to know how tall someone is.
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iPhone 12 Pro Allows You to Measure Someone's Height Instantly Using LiDAR Scanner
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You’re reading that wrong. I’m saying use the Measure app to take a photo, then change the “measurement” later on to whatever you want.
Neat feature, but is Apple purposely doing this on new tech to upgrade to newer phones only ? I would think with all the software capable now-a-days to tweaking photos, light, contrast and such, the same camera could be used to measure people as well..
oh well.. perhaps Apple can figure that one out.
oh well.. perhaps Apple can figure that one out.
Don’t throw out the measuring tape. I measured the same kid with it several times and got wildly different results from 4’11 to 5’3. She’s 5’3”. It said my husband was 5’11, then 6’0. He’s 6’2 and that’s from them measuring his height at the doctor’s office. And I know he’s not 5’11, because my dad’s 5’11 and he’s much taller than my dad. Everyone else was asleep so I’ll try getting more heights tomorrow, but I’m not counting on this app. It’s okay for an estimate.
Maybe it works better on your iPad Pro. I couldn’t get it to give the same results for the same person.
yes - Apple now extended Airdrop with Pantsdrop to share measurement information between your Apple devices.
Unfortunately my size didn’t fit in the wide angle camera lens bounding box so I hope Apple will improve optics and implement the followup to LiDAR, aka WiDAR.
It's just just women.... it's a whole range of societal issues. Men under 5'7'' can't even buy clothes in normal stores, they have to go to children's stores or a handful of rare shops that sell things for smaller men in Europe.
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There's an App, Magicplan, that makes floorpans, the last update includes the Lidar scanner, much more useful than this.
This requires LiDAR, and the iPhone 12 Pro is the first iPhone to have it. The only other device with LiDAR is the iPad Pro (2020).
Yes it’s called trigonometry, a curious tech that’s been around since 300 BC.
Unless I’m missing something, you can (and always have been able to) measure anything with the Measure app.
I'm a little skeptical about this feature, since my previous attempts to use this tool have given less than accurate results when measuring objects as simple as boxes and book cases.
Of course but most people already know their height. Maybe for kids that are always growing. Since we can’t guarantee the lidar scanner is 100% right every time we can’t even check someone’s height and say they lied because the sensor might be off.
Maps directions, too, but I imagine they are integrated with Siri.
It is even worse on the watch where it defaults to "freedom units" despite my setting the Maps app to metric.
Sorry, not sorry - I would rather use the same measures as the rest of the world. Whenever travel is an option again it will be nice to have one fewer unnecessary obstacle to communication.
It is even worse on the watch where it defaults to "freedom units" despite my setting the Maps app to metric.
Sorry, not sorry - I would rather use the same measures as the rest of the world. Whenever travel is an option again it will be nice to have one fewer unnecessary obstacle to communication.