Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro

Re:Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro by apocalypses on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:02PM (#22891352)

I've had a play around with the new ipad. The big problem is (as far as I can see), absolutely no way for a developer to get access to the underlying depth data.

I'm assuming it's coming in the next version of iOS, because you _can_ get access to the faceid depth data in a useful format.

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Re:Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro by id_ris on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:06PM (#22891397)

Is it not available through 'AVCaptureDepthDataOutput`? My understanding is that depth data is a separate channel stored in photos.

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Re:Lidar: Peek into the Future with iPad Pro by apocalypses on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:52PM (#22892287)

Maybe I screwed it up, I’m not the best developer ever. I took their sample code to extract the depth data from front camera and this worked - switching to .back caused it to return a nil device, so didn’t really know where to go after that.

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