When Apple first introduced its LiDAR capabilities, we saw tons of fun ways to use it. Games were quick to adopt LiDAR to make things more immersive, and those ideas are still going strong. But, several apps use the technology for much more than entertainment. Your iPhone or iPad Pro’s ...
Shapr 3D, the 2020 Apple Design Award winner, is a computer-aided 3D design app for iPad with a full range of 3D modeling features. This app uses the Simens Parasolid engine to generate 3D models. As a result, it has become the most potent iPad CAD app. You can use 2D and 3D model...
Polycam is an example of the newer generation of architecture apps for the iPad Pro (as well as for iPhone 12 Pro) since these two devices are the only ones so far that are equipped with a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, a remote measuring method that uses pulsed laser to deliver hi...
Apple statesit has the world’s largest AR (augmented reality) platform. It has a point. Every device back to the iPhone 6s is capable of running AR apps that fuse the real world and virtual objects. And if you’ve an iPhone 12 Pro or iPad Pro, the LiDAR scanner takes AR to the ...
scanning space. Available to recent iPad and iPhone owners, LiDAR works very differently to photogrammetry. Designed for longer-range capture than is possible with Face ID, LiDAR sees infrared light pulses fired towards an object, with the time taken for it to return being used to calculate ...
It has two different versions – Room Scan Classic, an older version of the app, and Room Scan LiDAR, an updated version that takes advantage of iPhone’s LiDAR capabilities to improve the scanning results. Room Scan can add notes to photos and measurements, supports Apple Pencil, is capable...
We’ve rounded up the best Apple tablets in 2025, demystifying which iPads are best, whether you need one for calls and emails or for reading and streaming.
The iPad Pro's rear camera system has an extra ultra-wide camera and LIDAR scanner (for AR apps) The iPad Pro can have RAM up to 16GB and storage up to 2TB; the iPad Air is stuck at 8GB RAM and either 64GB or 256GB or storage ...
The app has previously been able to run on iPad, but the newHalide Pro Camera for iPadis custom-designed and optimized forApple's tablet. This means you get all of the usual manual tools, for adjusting things like shutter speed and ISO, plus the ability to shoot raw and Instant Raw sna...
LiDAR is short for Light Detection and Ranging, but unlike Radar, it relies on lasers instead of radio waves. A LiDAR sensor fires lasers onto an object, and that light bounces off it and returns to the starting point, allowing the sensor to create a 3D model of the object. ✕Remove ...