{"id":13761,"date":"2020-11-02T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13761"},"modified":"2020-11-02T09:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:04:47","slug":"lidar-is-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/02\/lidar-is-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"LiDAR is magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;or at least sufficiently indistinguishable from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple is adding a feature to help blind users <a href=\"http:\/\/First, it tells the user whether there are people in view at all. If someone is there, it will then say how far away the closest person is in feet or meters, updating regularly as they approach or move further away. The sound corresponds in stereo to the direction the person is in the camera\u2019s view.\">detect the presence &amp; distance of people<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s how people detection works in iOS 14.2 beta &#8211; the voiceover support is a tiny bit buggy but still super cool <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vCyX2wYfx3\">https:\/\/t.co\/vCyX2wYfx3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e8V4zMeC5C\">pic.twitter.com\/e8V4zMeC5C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/panzer\/status\/1322362411949518848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m super interested in seeing how it may help regular people generate 3D models, though it remains to be seen what they&#8217;ll then do with them:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Recording memories will never be the same.<\/p>\n<p>Captured in 5 seconds with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iPhone12Pro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#iPhone12Pro<\/a> lidar<br \/>Processed in 20 seconds with <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/md5CBwvTYn\">https:\/\/t.co\/md5CBwvTYn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Direct export to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sketchfab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Sketchfab<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sZNMJHoJGi\">https:\/\/t.co\/sZNMJHoJGi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Olivia! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SG9JqZBaQe\">pic.twitter.com\/SG9JqZBaQe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 alban denoyel (@albn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albn\/status\/1322614235843731457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the capture flow in <a href=\"http:\/\/3dscannerapp.com\/\">3D Scanner App<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3D Scanning on the iPad Pro with LIDAR\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZY6y1IVIfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or at least sufficiently indistinguishable from it. Apple is adding a feature to help blind users detect the presence &amp; distance of people: Here\u2019s how people detection works in iOS 14.2 beta &#8211; the voiceover support is a tiny bit buggy but still super cool https:\/\/t.co\/vCyX2wYfx3 pic.twitter.com\/e8V4zMeC5C \u2014 Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) October 31, 2020 I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13766,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions\/13766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}