Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by joshumax on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:50PM
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I've always thought that depth sensing tech could be used
to help offload some of the nasty hacks floating around in
the world of AR, computer vision, and spatial navigation. I just never realized how much it would speed up development until I decided to play around with an Orbbec Astra and PCL a few years ago... I'm not an Apple user, but I am glad that they implemented this technology in the iPhone X since it will spur other vendors to adopt this type of technology as well. Hopefully they will allow some form of direct access to the IR dot projector and camera along with DepthKit or whatever Apple decides to call it. Until that time, however, at least other projects like structure.io are attempting to bring depth sensing technology into the mainstream.
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Re:The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect
by chicago_wade on Sunday September 17, 2017 @03:59PM
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> Hopefully they will allow some form of direct access to the IR dot projector and camera along with DepthKit or whatever Apple decides to call it
And then the app developers upload the depth data to their servers and use it to track users, and then the servers are hacked and the depth data is taken by the hackers and then the hackers sell the depth data and then someone can use that data to unlock stolen iPhones. Sounds great /s