vGIS, a developer of augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) solutions for field services, has evaluated whether the new 2020 iPad Pro’s lidar sensor improves spatial tracking. Here are their findings.
The lidar scanner enables measures the distance to surrounding objects up to 5 metres away, works both indoors and outdoors, and operates at the photon level at nano-second speeds. New depth frameworks in iPadOS combine depth points measured by the lidar scanner, data from both cameras and motion sensors, and is enhanced by computer vision algorithms on the A12Z Bionic for a more detailed understanding of a scene.