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New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

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Post by ebspelman »

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…

check out display.land

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Post by amluto »

jyrkesh wrote: post #381
lern_too_spel wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Arbitrary code execution requires some kind of privilege escalation. If it's impossible, I don't have much interest in your OS.

That is only true under an odd definition of privilege. There are certainly hardening and auditing benefits of preventing arbitrary code execution, but defining code execution itself as a form of privilege in and of itself is unusual.

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Post by rchaud »

saralily wrote: post #332
GeorgeTirebiter wrote: post #272

There is exactly one attribute which will convince me the iPad Pro is a 'real' computer: when I can develop apps for the iPad on the iPad. Until then... nice, but ...

This is what blows my mind about their decisions regarding software priorities. Being able to build Macintosh apps on a Macintosh was fundamental to the survival of the platform. Hell, there isn't even a coherent story about developing client-side web applications on an iPad, something much simpler—the interpreter's already there!

A very long time has passed since then. Apple is hardly at risk of having iOS collapse because of lack of developer support.

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Post by mvid »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #390
millzlane wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until you can run MacOS on it, it will always pale in comparison to a Surface pro. You can do some things well on a iPad pro. But you can do anything on a Surface pro except run MacOS. Well I looked and it looks like some have installed MacOS or used vmware images.

> Until you can run MacOS on it Do we think we'll see full blown MacOS/equivalent on iPads in the next 2-3 years?

It seems more like they are pulling macOS and iOS together, so we will probably see some hybrid of both on both devices. Hopefully better than the Windows implementation though

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Post by antimetropic »

karmicthreat wrote: post #350

My mechanical engineer co-worker loves the depth sensor on the old iPad Pro. He uses it all the time to shapes into solidworks that he then designs parts to fit onto. I'm sure he will be excited about this if the sensor is that much better.

Any software recommendations for this? I really like my iPad Pro for all sorts of other reasons, but until seeing your comment I didn’t realize that 3d scanning with the depth camera was a thing, and am now interested in trying it out.

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Post by mplanchard »

mikepurvis wrote: post #366
villahousut wrote: post #308

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There is a dramatic difference in how flattering the angle of a photo is. Portraits should always be taken minimally at eye level, never below. Having the camera any lower makes people look uglier on video or selfies.

The Dell XPS series is awful for this; the camera is mounted below the screen, I guess to reduce the top bezel? It makes you look atrocious.

The newer models have fixed this, putting the webcam up top where it belongs!

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Post by pfranz »

longtermd wrote: post #241
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…

The front facing camera is also massively neglected for the MacBook Pro, which I use all the time (!) for video conferencing.

This frustrated me to no end. I'm pretty sure the newest MacBook Pros have the exact same camera on my previous 2011 MacBook Pro (and likely earlier). I don't care all that much about resolution...just make the image quality better and work better in low light.

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Post by EugeneOZ »

mikepurvis wrote: post #366
villahousut wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a dramatic difference in how flattering the angle of a photo is. Portraits should always be taken minimally at eye level, never below. Having the camera any lower makes people look uglier on video or selfies.

The Dell XPS series is awful for this; the camera is mounted below the screen, I guess to reduce the top bezel? It makes you look atrocious.

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