…or at least sufficiently indistinguishable from it.

Apple is adding a feature to help blind users detect the presence & distance of people:

Here’s how people detection works in iOS 14.2 beta – the voiceover support is a tiny bit buggy but still super cool https://t.co/vCyX2wYfx3 pic.twitter.com/e8V4zMeC5C

— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) October 31, 2020

I’m super interested in seeing how it may help regular people generate 3D models, though it remains to be seen what they’ll then do with them:

Recording memories will never be the same.

Captured in 5 seconds with #iPhone12Pro lidar
Processed in 20 seconds with https://t.co/md5CBwvTYn

Direct export to @Sketchfab: https://t.co/sZNMJHoJGi

Happy birthday Olivia! pic.twitter.com/SG9JqZBaQe

— alban denoyel (@albn) October 31, 2020

Here’s the capture flow in 3D Scanner App: