Weird, you only take 2-3 photos or videos per year? Because LIDAR is used to make autofocus for both up to 6x faster, especially in low-light.
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iPhone 15 Pro Models Again Rumored to Feature Improved LiDAR Scanner
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Also quoting you beautiful people so you will be cognizant of a feature you actually use all the time. This is why your phone shots aren’t blurry half the time and why you can quickly get a shot without waiting on focus hunting. Overall it improves photography and anything that makes it even better and reduces battery life while taking photos and videos is a good improvement in my book.
That's awesome but we need more intuitive Applications to run the LiDAR Scanner. Bring back 3D-Touch. 🙌
3D Touch was one of the best technologies Apple ever created - 9to5Mac
Unfortunately, I really think 3D Touch is gone forever, but it was one of the best technologies Apple ever put into the iPhone.9to5mac.com
It’s useful to picture a rug on your living room floor, and to picture an iPhone in hand.
Who cares! BTW: I’ve been an Apple “Fanboy” since the first Macintosh, spending thousands over the years. I have no desire for an Apple AR headset. Who wants to walk around or have a headset cover your face. This could be a big mistake…remember 3D TV and movies, how did they do?
Millions upon millions of people, and when it's a small enough form factor, billions... You're the kind of near sighted people who laughed at the automobile, 4KTV, portable computers, smart watches, light bulbs, airplanes...
Apples pr department is amazing.
I objectively see it action everyday, my cheapo android phone focuses better without LiDAR.
Yes your eyes take a clear photo and you're able to avoid a truck, right?
you don't come with Lidar (radar or sonar like a bat or deep sea fish) ... so what are you really saying here? Their cars still have THE top rating for frontal, side, rear, and roll-over impact protection on the road, all models.
So now ... name us 1 car that has LiDar and has consistently proven complete autonomous driving (non-prefixed mapped route or fixed range map range) - even in Beta and is able to work?
I'll wait.
As for the iPhone 15, the only thing I'm interested in is finally switching everything over to USB C. Other than that, it's just "more of the same thing".
Looks like another yawnfest from Apple this year unless they pull a game-changing turn with an A/R headset.
Looks like another yawnfest from Apple this year unless they pull a game-changing turn with an A/R headset.
Aside from the fact that LiDAR is used everytime you take a photo, I think the "it's a gimmick" folks will go extinct once Apple release some kind of native "3D Scene" mode in the Camera app, it's bound to happen and I'm predicting it will be an exclusive feature for this year's Pro phone. I have no idea how it will work but all I know is that Apple must be planning on implementing some kind of first class 3D photo/video/scene capture into their devices to officially signal that "the world of mobile 3D is here."
If I had to guess I would say it will be a 3D successor to Live Photo instead of 3D model capture (which will be a separate feature, not in the Camera app) and not 3D video capture. The intent behind Live Photo is to enhance a regular photo with just a bit more context of the moment of capture, right now this is a short animation plus audio, tomorrow it will be short animation, audio, and basic 3D parallax.
If I had to guess I would say it will be a 3D successor to Live Photo instead of 3D model capture (which will be a separate feature, not in the Camera app) and not 3D video capture. The intent behind Live Photo is to enhance a regular photo with just a bit more context of the moment of capture, right now this is a short animation plus audio, tomorrow it will be short animation, audio, and basic 3D parallax.
Apple isn't allowed to use 3D Touch. They lost the lawsuit and had to remove it from their future products.
Good to hear about this. Should be useful for improvements in camera.
Didn't know that, I thought it only applies to Portrait mode (Which I barely use) only.
Thanks for the info bro.
This. People seem to ignore that every time you take a picture you are using the LiDAR Scanner.
Well it doesn’t work very good, and all the phones that don’t have them seem to focus just fine or better.
So what’s the purpose??
I'm looking to upgrade my LiDAR-less iPhone 8, and one of the reasons is so I can play with 3D modeling and room scanning. If the iPhone 15 Pro's LiDAR is better than that of the iPhone 14 Pro, I can wait.
More of the same thing, only improved. What is not to like? iPhone Pros are amazing devices.
All manner of great Apple devices and you call it a yawnfest. Sheesh.
Maybe some are too new to the ecosystem to remember when Apple product releases were actually exciting. The last few years, it has been mere "speed bumps" and minor enhancements with the exception of maybe Apple Silicon and MagSafe on the iPhones. Apple product releases used to often have game changing new features and actually give us a reason to upgrade our existing Apple products.
Don't be so easily impressed with Apple these days. They need to be held to their own high standards instead of becoming slow, fat, sloppy and complacent.
I have been in the Mac ecosystem perhaps longer than anyone else here. And I do not see it the way you do: slow, fat, sloppy and complacent. Not at all.
Do expect some maturity in products; a good thing. Recent products like the Studio, the M2 Mini, the M2 MBA and the M2 MBPs are neither slow, fat, sloppy nor complacent.
Saying you've been in the Mac ecosystem longer than anyone else here is a little egocentric. For example, you joined MR in 2016. I have 10 years on you (2006) and I don't think I'm the oldest one here.
I'm not talking about Apple products being slow fat and sloppy. I'm talking about Apple as a company. Hopefully they're just going through another innovation slump, or have something big in the works.
No intention to be egocentric, but when you claimed "Maybe some are too new to the ecosystem" I could not ignore the gross inaccuracy. We already had a Lisa ordered when the first Macs were announced, and we converted the order to two 128k Macs. So as a young engineer I had one of the very first Macs on my desk and have been buying them ever since. I consider those 128k Macs as the start of the ecosystem, not silly website registration dates decades later.
One of my coworkers used an Apple][ even earlier, but for some reason that box has always seemed like a different ecosystem to me.
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There's a difference between saying "Maybe some are too new to the ecosystem..." and outright saying you "...have been in the Apple ecosystem longer than everyone else" (on Macrumors). The latter is more likely to represent your gross inaccuracy.
Mostly I think "the ecosystem" is a system of interconnected devices that work together to great a synergistic experience where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Some might argue that the Apple ecosystem didn't even exist until either the iPod or the iPhone/ iPad, or even iCloud. That being said, owning two computers back in the Lisa era might not constitute an ecosystem, nor make someone an expert on it.
Please quote accurately or not at all. What I said was "I have been in the Mac ecosystem perhaps longer than anyone else here," which is a truism, since I had one of the very first Macs shipped on my desk. At no point did I claim to be an expert, or not. Your very wrong statement: "Maybe some are too new to the ecosystem" could not be ignored.
Please this time read the original words that I guess you missed: Mac ecosystem that I referenced, which is why I said perhaps longer than anyone else here. You may choose to define the ecosystem in question around iPods, iPhones or whatever, that is your choice. The later time frame you choose for your ecosystem definition, the more folks here who will have been involved since its beginnings.
But whatever definitions you make up, claiming my disagreement with your opinion may be due to "too new to the ecosystem" remains simply wrong - - unless you go back to prior to the 128k Macs.
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