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New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by kbumsik »

owenversteeg wrote: post #46

Anyone here use these for webdev (or development work more generally) as a replacement for a laptop? How well does that work? I'm very curious.

Definitely not for a web dev.

1. iPad doesn't have a serious IDE. And syncing your workspace with a local computer is not trivial.

2. Safari for iPad doesn't have a dev mode.

3. However, if you only use terminal and vi, iPad has a great terminal app: Blink. Honestly Blink is better than most of desktop terminal in the market. https://blink.sh/

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by welly »

nemacol wrote: post #20
luigi23 wrote: post #8

Any ideas what you could develop with new lidar scanner?

I would like an app that lets me map the dimensions and floor plans of an indoor space. Without really knowing a ton about lidar or the specific implementation of it in this device, I imagine that could be done? The apps that use the camera are all pretty clunky. If I could just walk around the inside of my house for a while and let it map it out, that would be nifty. (put on tin foil hat) Then the iPad can track my…

Are you involved in sales?

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by saagarjha »

sneak wrote: post #74

lidar?! Between the 3D front-scanner for Face ID (which, incidentally, worked less well than TouchID did at the time of FaceID launch), the whole touchbar debacle, the UWB radio locator stuff in the latest iPhones, EKG support on the watch, and now LIDAR on the iPad, it seems like Apple is lately really into putting esoteric/novel hardware that nobody really wants or cares about into their newest high-end devices. Th…

This is actually an A12Z CPU.

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Post by fsloth »

luigi23 wrote: post #8

Any ideas what you could develop with new lidar scanner?

Basically same as the current AR, but with actual measurements. So the scale is actually correct, distance measures are correct, and so on. Can create a 3D model up to the range of the LIDAR etc etc.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by stinos »

baxtr wrote: post #49

So basically it has evolved into a laptop with a detachable monitor that includes a built-in camera (which is for sure awesome)

Yes I wonder what's going to 'win', tablet or 'laptop which can act like tablet', or will they both stay?

At this rate we'll have to start comparing tablets like this to laptops like Surface Pro and it's clones (or vice-versa, maybe the Surface is the clone, don't remember exact sequence of events) because the only difference is the OS. And if more 'tablet modes' start emerging from main OS the gap will become very narrow.

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