MANUFACTURING OF TOMORROW: AUGMENTED REALITY
As we all know AR is a tech to watch out for in the future. AR has been adopted by many companies and many look forward to adopting it sooner or later. This tech helps us to visualize things in the present world, unlike VR’S. Before we move forward, I think we must take a pause and appreciate the world’s brilliant minds who have worked day and night to develop such technology which helps us to do so much more through a mobile that we would have never thought of. These advancements ensure that we don’t hesitate in saying that the future is in good hands.
TRENDS IN AR:
We all know the names of the companies who have started using AR and developing not just their brand but their future as well, so in this blog, we would like to bring to your knowledge the most recent trend in AR technology that is LiDAR sensor, which was seen in the iPhone 12 series. You all might have heard of 3D maps or Pokémon go which grabbed a lot of audiences some time back, but what is this lidar scanner/sensor, a built-in lie detector? A more relaxed version of radar perhaps?
As we’ll discover, LiDAR (or ‘Light Detection and Ranging) does work in a similar way to radar, only it uses lasers to judge distances and depth. This is big news for augmented reality (AR) and, to a lesser extent, photography too. In short, the tech lets you scan and map your environment by firing out laser beams, then timing how quickly they return. A bit like how bats ‘see’ with sound waves, only with lasers –which makes it even cooler.
What’s different about Apple’s LiDAR scanner?
You might already be familiar with the time-of-flight (ToF) sensors seen on many Android phones — these help them sense scene depth and mimic the bokeh effects of larger cameras. But the LiDAR system used in the iPhone 12 Pro and iPad Pro 2020 — promises to go beyond this. That’s because it’s a LiDAR scanner, rather than the ‘scanner less’ systems seen on smartphones so far.
The latter uses a single pulse of infra-red light to create their 3D maps, but a scanning LiDAR system fires a train of laser pulses at different parts of a scene over a short period of time.
This brings two main benefits — an improved range of up to five meters and better object ‘occlusion’, which is the appearance of virtual objects disappearing behind real ones like trees.
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