Useless gimmicky feature. The cameras are trash anyway since they force an AI post-processing on them that turns all details into mush
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iPhone 15 Pro Models Again Rumored to Feature Improved LiDAR Scanner
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used this legit once on some room scanner app to test it. otherwise never any other times. i dunno if it gets used much in night photos but i’m pretty sure the sensor is useless outdoors.
as others are saying i’d much rather still have 3d touch
as others are saying i’d much rather still have 3d touch
i feel lucky with the 13 pro as it seems improved. i almost didn’t want another oled iphone but it’s slightly better now with the newer ones (not sure if it’s 120hz models only)
Neither face ID nor LIDAR sensor are harmful for the eye, they just cant. Looking at the sun directly is far worse.
I mean its like people complaining with 5G all over the world don't know the frecuency used for it in Europe at least was in the spectrum of tv signals part of the reason why tv moved to a different spectrum, nobody has ever complained about those huh? Cause its not harmfull.
LiDAR ruined iPhone photography for me. Thanks to this non-essential feature, the iPhone LOVES to focus on the glass of a window rather than the view when taking pictures of anything outside. This is especially noticeable in an airplane or your windows when you are taking them close to the glass to reduce glare.
iPhone 11 Pro never did this. iPhone 11 Pro remains my favorite iPhone, hands down.
iPhone 11 Pro never did this. iPhone 11 Pro remains my favorite iPhone, hands down.
I've got two iOS devices from Lidar. That's twice as many times as I've used it with intent.
I know it uses it for camera coarse focusing as well but that's absolute garbage anyway so hardly worth it. Started carrying my mirrorless these days.
I know it uses it for camera coarse focusing as well but that's absolute garbage anyway so hardly worth it. Started carrying my mirrorless these days.
Maybe it could be used for additional video recapture (it being activated and recording simultaneous with the cameras).
Use case would be for videos being recorded, would put the user (any vr headset) to now be “in” the video recording, only possible using LiDAR which maps out a 3D space. Anyone with a VR headset should “in theory” be able use the LiDAR information as a way of 3D mapping to be “in” the video recording, not just watching playback on a 2D screen (ur phone).
I hope that makes sense. Ha.
Use case would be for videos being recorded, would put the user (any vr headset) to now be “in” the video recording, only possible using LiDAR which maps out a 3D space. Anyone with a VR headset should “in theory” be able use the LiDAR information as a way of 3D mapping to be “in” the video recording, not just watching playback on a 2D screen (ur phone).
I hope that makes sense. Ha.
Yea I’d rather they remove the useless thing to give more space for better lenses and sensors. Even with this LiDAR the iPhone 14 pro’s can’t focus on anything closer than a foot away. My older cheap Android without a LiDAR sensor focuses faster, closer, and takes better pics. I’m starting to wonder if anyone at Apple knows anything about photography.
That hasn't been my experience. My 14PM is an excellent camera.
how many times you look at the sun directly ? its like saying shooting yourself with a gun is bad, dropping a nuke on yourself is worst so stick with the gun. we dont know the effects on long term exposure our eyesight. especially phone users who are starring at it daily. most likely its harmless but they said the same thing about smoking in the 50s
Some of us have use of the LiDAR Scanner for photogrammetry. It’s so much easier using an iPhone or iPad Pro for object capture and render a 3D model. Of course this can be used for product mock-ups and AR, but I’m a scientist and I’m currently writing a paper on using these photogrammetry models for geometric morphometrics (analysis of shape).
I prefer the iPhone‘s LiDAR over the iPad Pro which in tandem with the cameras is so much more detailed in RAW or ‘High’ settings.
The alternate is using a DSLR and a round table which is more than fine in terms of quality but you need to pay for software like Agisoft Pro to stitch the images and create a 3D model. The iPhone is a lot more portable and is useful when traveling to museums.
I prefer the iPhone‘s LiDAR over the iPad Pro which in tandem with the cameras is so much more detailed in RAW or ‘High’ settings.
The alternate is using a DSLR and a round table which is more than fine in terms of quality but you need to pay for software like Agisoft Pro to stitch the images and create a 3D model. The iPhone is a lot more portable and is useful when traveling to museums.
It is amazing how many folks ignorantly diss the idea of Lidar improving - - without having any real idea of how Apple uses Lidar deep in iOS, or how Apple may intend future improved Lidar to be used. Such folks should simply save money by not buying new devices and not also loudly proclaim their ignorance.
Apple's next-generation iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are once again rumored to feature an improved LiDAR Scanner supplied by Sony.
In a research note shared with investors this week, Barclays analysts Blayne Curtis and Tom O'Malley said Sony could supply the majority, if not all, of LiDAR Scanner components for the iPhone 15 Pro models launching later this year.Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo last month said Sony would replace Lumentum and WIN Semiconductors as the exclusive supplier of LiDAR Scanner components for the iPhone 15 Pro models. Kuo said Sony's solution is more power efficient and could result in the LiDAR Scanner offering improved performance at the same level of power consumption as now, or equal performance with less of an impact on battery life.
Introduced on iPhone 12 Pro models in 2020, the LiDAR Scanner can measure light distance and capture depth information, and the hardware is expected to remain exclusive to iPhone 15 Pro models. An improved LiDAR Scanner could be beneficial to augmented reality apps, Night mode photos, and camera autofocus.
Other rumored iPhone 15 Pro features include an A17 Bionic chip, a USB-C port, a titanium frame with solid-state buttons, thinner bezels around the display, and more.
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the camera app uses lidar for measuring the distance to the object.
the more telephoto-ish a lens is the more sense make a good lidar sensor.
the more telephoto-ish a lens is the more sense make a good lidar sensor.
Interesting that you make that mush claim. I use iP14 Pro pix in my work and zoom in to (given the tiny lenses in phones) surprisingly good detail from the iP14 Pro all the time. And my other cameras are Nikon D3, D500 and D850 + pro grade lenses, so I am very familiar with image detail. Along with proper lighting, holding any camera very still, including tripod use in some situations, is one key to avoiding mush.
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It’s a useless thing unless you’re one of the 5 people on Earth who actually use it.
Educate us then, tell me why and how my cheap Android phone that came out in 2020 focuses much better and closer than my 14 pro max does, without LiDAR. And how that makes the iPhone better? What does it do now? Why should this thing be in the phone taking up valuable space if it has no use??
what? the camera uses all the time to focus mostly at night were contrast focus can be tricky, also this has nothing to do with minimum focal distance (which apple enforces to avoid having blurry edges ok pictures, which I wish was toggleable)
portrait pictures DOF is vastly precise than the competition in tricky scenarios and it enables foreground blur since is not a AI semantic segmentation but a truly point cloud
I can continue but you already made up your mind so...
You use it every time you take a picture.
All I want is to be able to take pictures out of airplane windows again. (I'm not 100% sure but I think it's a lidar issue, because I never had problems focusing out airplane windows with my non-lidar phones.)