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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 GeorgeTirebiter »

m3kw9 wrote: post #262
Someone1234 wrote: post #215

The front facing camera is seriously neglected. They keep on adding more powerful/fancy cameras to the rear that people likely under-use in the common case, while the front camera that is commonly used for work, video conferencing, selfies, etc remains on the wrong edge and is under-powered. It is almost farcical with the new keyboard setting the top to the non-camera edge. The front facing camera should be the premi…

They only need it to be optimized for close range in most use cases. I wouldn’t say is neglected

Exactly. I've had iPads now since the 2nd model, and have used front camera about 2% of the time, and the rear about 98% of the time (great for snapping whiteboards). But, truly, I don't use the cameras much at all, and would prefer to not have fancy cameras on an iPad. The phone is where the fancy cameras should be. And, I also carry a 'pocket' camera with far better close-ups, better video, and more storage and effects which I don't use as much, but is indispensable when it is.

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Post by xenonite »

Yabood wrote: post #9

The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for $299 (US) for the 11-inch iPad Pro and $349 (US) for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro Wow. This must be one hell of a keyboard..

I couldn't find any weight specifications for the Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. For reference: the 12.9-inch Smart Keyboard Folio, without a trackpad and without scissor switches, weighs 407 grams. So, lets speculate the new keyboard, as a blind guess, weighs 500 grams. Adding this to the new iPad 12.9"'s weight of 642 grams, the total weight is over 1.2 kilograms, which already is in the range of the new MBA2020 with 1.29 kilograms. Why not take the full laptop instead, then?

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

Slippery_John wrote: post #237
luigi23 wrote: post #8

Any ideas what you could develop with new lidar scanner?

3D scan any physical object and then send it to a 3D printer. So many possibilities! - Cosplayer? 3D scan yourself, you now have a model you can make minis out of. - Need to replace a simple valve to help treat covid19? This does most of the work for you. - Game dev? You can scan a real world item, either importing it directly or using it as an outline for an in-game object. For most high detail or functional things…

Taking measurements for clothes. If a store had one, they could show you which items fit, or order custom made clothes.

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Post by 333c »

williamdclt wrote: post #263
fmajid wrote: post #128

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What does Apple have against the Escape key? That's a deal-breaker right there.

Completely off-topic, but for everybody that maps Caps Lock to esc, how do you ctrl-tab? That's what my Caps Lock is mapped to, and I cannot understand how ctrl-tab can be any sort of comfortable to reach on a standard layout?

I haven't mapped my caps lock to anything else, but on my Mac I ⌘-tab, which is pretty natural for my thumb and fourth finger given the position of the ⌘ key next to the space bar.

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Post by whoisjuan »

gozzoo wrote: post #201

What's up with the CPU? The recent iPhone has A13 Bionic and now, half year latter theier flagship iPad has A12z?! How do both compare?

They actually do that a lot. They usually release A(n)X when there's already an A(n+1) available.

Usually, the X version (or in this case, the Z version) is the same architecture as a previous non-letter architecture but with optimized and improved multi-core performance achieved with new components and likely some overclocking. They are also likely optimized to handle workloads differently since they are put in devices that are meant to work differently than a handheld phone.

The X versions seem to be optimized to take full advantage of the larger batteries available in the iPads or for non-battery devices like the Apple TV.

I don't think there are X CPUs that were put in iPhones, so far (I could be wrong, though).

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Post by [deleted] »

tylerwince wrote: post #266
mikeknoop wrote: post #265

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I agree. The software needs support for this too. I earnestly tried to use the iPad for a few weeks, and the placement of the camera was annoying (off center, angled up, no one looks good at this angle). But the software was the deal breaker. iOS and iPadOS disallow background camera use and there is no API to allow it except for FaceTime which does PiP in the corner when it’s backgrounded. Even side-by-side in the n…

This ^ I wish there was a way to take notes on my iPad and join the call from my iPad. This it the main thing that keeps me from making the leap 100%.

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Post by lern_too_spel »

Someone1234 wrote: post #232
amluto wrote: post #222

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How exactly would debugging sacrifice the security model?

Debugging allows arbitrary code execution. Essentially you allow developers to debug running applications on their iPad, you allow them to run any code they want on it (maybe with extra steps, but that is the unavoidable inevitable result). I'm not against it, but I am saying that's quite different from the iPad's current security model. You're giving developers root, maybe with extra steps, but root none the less.

If arbitrary code execution means trivial privilege escalation, your OS is broken.

Re: New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by BubRoss »

luigi23 wrote: post #8

Any ideas what you could develop with new lidar scanner?

It is only new to the iPad - you can look at intel's realsense and microsoft's kinect to check out depth cameras in use for many years already. The integration is what will make it special. We will have to see what the noise is like coming off the camera though. I would guess there will be some SLAM demos of mapping spaces or digitizing objects.
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