New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

Post by bonestamp2 » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

e_proxus wrote: post #225

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…

Just wait until you try the front facing camera on a MacBook (in my case, the Air from 2019). It's so horrible compared to any recent iDevice from the last years. I don't understand why they don't improve them to match the mobile quality at least.

Post by dpeck » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #336

braythwayt wrote: post #221

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I don't, but I see plenty of people who shoot pictures with their iPads. If the best camera was on the front, what would they use for a viewfinder? Also, I used to be 100% remote, and I WFH plenty, so I'm on videoconferences all the time. I do not perceive the need for insanely good cameras for this. Selfies, maybe, perhaps Instagram influencers need super-high-res selfie photos and movies. All that being said, maybe…

I have never seen a person take a picture with an iPad using the rear camera. What I want from the front camera is mostly good light sensitivity and color rendition. I don't need more than 1080p video on it though. It feels like it should be possible without making it very expensive. If it isn't possible, then for an iPad I'd sacrifice ALL the rear camera functionality for just a slightly better front cam, in a heart…

Post by nailer » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 4:42 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #37

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..

Well it's also a display stand, to raise the iPad Pro up (insert joke about Apple's 20K stand here). Anyone with a current Mac who's been using it for a while want to tel us how the keyboard is? I'm typing this on one of 2018 ones and it feels like I'm typing directly on a desk.

Post by AgloeDreams » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 4:43 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #283

burgerquizz wrote: post #186

Apple, please make the ipadOS eco system developer friendly. I'd buy it instantly. If Visual Studio Code was available there, that'd be amazing. There is some projects[1] going on but using some non-viable workaround [1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/70764

I had to do a double take when I saw you’d written ‘VSCode’. Are you serious? We should be starting with XCode, I mean, given all the rules and restrictions on the platform, it’ll be shocking enough when Apple finally gets XCode into action. As for VSCode, I’m not even sure what you’d be compiling onto the device, as Swift or Obj-C in XCode is the only way to end up with a .ipa you can run...

Post by Symmetry » Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

fmajid wrote: post #171

megous wrote: post #53

> The LiDAR Scanner measures the distance to surrounding objects up to 5 meters away, works both indoors and outdoors, and operates at the photon level at nano-second speeds. Light travels 30cm in 1ns. That's not really a very exciting precision at 5m range. That's like 4bit resolution. Are there any specs aside from this marketing blabber?

It's a ToF sensor array, so you wouldn't expect the range of a Leica Disto, not would it make sense in this use case. Think more of gestures like a Kinect, or realtors making floor plans by scanning a room around. Probably something like this: https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/vl53l1x.pdf