It’s in the new iPad Pro tablets, it’s rumored to be coming to the iPhone 12, and a form of it has been appearing in Android phones for the last few years. What exactly is LiDAR, and why would you ...

It’s the end of the year, which means the world gets a new iPhone. And in the case of the iPhone 12, we’re getting five new ones. This time, the iPhone has a small surprise in store: an integrated ...

To make the iPhone as capable as it is, Apple equipped it with several sensors. One of these is the LiDAR scanner. LiDAR — short for Light Detection and Ranging — is a sensor that essentially measures ...

House-scanning app Canvas works with lidar on the iPhone 12 Pro, but also scans without it. The difference is accuracy. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, ...

There are some interesting iOS apps being worked on to allow you to walk around inside a room, for instance, while capturing a point cloud, or capture point clouds for objects. I guess in the near ...

TikTok has launched its first augmented reality effect to make use of the LiDAR technology present in iPhone 12 Pro devices (via TechCrunch). To ring in 2021 we released our first AR effect on the new ...

The 2021 iPhone range could use rear-mounted LiDAR across the entire range, a report claims, with the supply chain anticipating higher shipments of LiDAR components to the mobile industry in general.