Cult of Mac

LiDAR scanner makes 2020 iPad Pro an augmented reality powerhouse

The 2020 iPad Pro is the first Apple computer with LiDAR. This innovation enables the tablet to make an accurate 3D map of its location. Combine it with software improvements and this tablet is, in ...
Cult of Mac

2020 iPad Pro teardown reveals the secrets of its LiDAR scanner

Open the 2020 iPad Pro, and in one corner you’ll find a pair of camera lenses and a LiDAR scanner. A LiDAR scanner is the highlight of the 2020 iPad Pro. So iFixit disassembled this just-released ...
VentureBeat

Apple debuts iPad Pro with lidar scanner, Magic Keyboard with trackpad

When iPadOS 13 introduced tentative support for trackpads and mice within the tablet’s Accessibility settings, the next obvious steps forward were full OS-level support for apps with cursors and ...
Ars Technica

Apple’s new iPad Pro has trackpad support, LiDAR, and an 8-core GPU

Mouse and trackpad support are coming to all iPads on March 24 with iPadOS 13.4.
Artnet

Archaeologists at Pompeii Say the iPad Pro—Which Comes With a LiDAR Scanner—Is Changing the Way They Work

For excavations at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city famously frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 C.E., archaeologists have an unexpected new tool to use alongside trowels, ...
Ars Technica

iPad Pro teardown basically finds 2018’s iPad with a lidar sensor

The LIDAR scanner and the appropriate software would make the iPad into an even more great field-research/surveying tool. Scan the ground, make a 3d-map of the area with LIDAR. Dig. Repeat. And it's ...