This "lidar" has something to do with
" is real, and is real" is a strategy in ancient China's military game, but this sentence is put into today's technological era, which is the application of augmented reality technology, that is, AR. The new iPad Pro released by Apple on March 28 made the boundary between reality and virtuality blurred by embedding a lidar scanner into the lens module .
Lidar scanner in the new iPad Pro lens module
This advanced technology that determines the distance by measuring the time it takes for light to touch an object and reflect it back. will be applied by NASA to the next Mars exploration mission . Logically speaking, this module should be relatively large in size, but I didn’t expect that it could be stuffed into the lens module of the new generation of iPad Pro after being redesigned. It seems that there will be no major problems when embedded in the iPhone 12 next time.
models after iPhone6S all support distance measurement
If you only use this special lidar scanner to measure length and distance, it is completely unnecessary, because the cost of keeping a measuring ruler is much lower than the cost of installing this module. In fact, ranging is just a "fur application", because the distance measurement function has been realized in iPhone6S, , iPhone7, and other subsequent series of mobile phones, as well as various iPad models. The most powerful thing about is that it can detect and operate at nanoseconds from the photonic level lies in laying the foundation for augmented reality (AR) in a wider field .
Mixed reality
It does not work independently, but collaborates with cameras, motion sensors and system architecture to conduct multi-dimensional depth measurements, making the "illusory thing" you see on the screen more realistic and brings a more immersive augmented reality experience.
The young AR application
may sound difficult to understand, but in fact, there are already many adaptable applications.
, such as IKEA Place, can allow you to select furniture from your mobile phone. It not only provides a choice of style, but also adapts to the length, width and height of furniture and the interior on this basis, and the placement is clear at a glance. It will not be placed with a tape measure like before, or with an imaginary arrangement based on pictures.
More experience home selection
will also update the way of learning, working and travel . For example, the application of Complete Anatomy can intuitively display complex human body structures and observe the details of various organs and tissues. Another example is GE, an application that can clearly show the internal situation of industrial equipment, which can help repairers improve repair efficiency. There are also American Airlines, which can overlap virtual routes in real-time shooting screens, so it is not too convenient to navigate to the terminal, find a café, and go to the bathroom.
route navigation is more convenient, and it is a thing of the past that often turns the phone to find direction. Of course, it cannot be missed in entertainment. It will take to take AR games to a new level . In 2016, , Nintendo and Google developed a battle RPG mobile game "Pokemon Go", once launched, it set off a frenzy of going outdoors to capture "pokemon" and fighting. It was the first large-scale integration of the two-dimensional world and the real world. The AR mobile game version of "EVE: Project Galaxy" (it seems to be still in a pigeon) released by the "EVE Online" team and NetEase has brought the magnificent and intense space battle scenes to the eyes, bringing an immersive visual experience that is as far as the future. In addition, "Minecraft AR" also shows powerful character capture and live action capture effects.
The new game
With the improvement and subsequent upgrade of Apple's augmented reality platform ARKit3, more and more AR applications will appear, and virtual elements can be integrated into the real environment more naturally, thereby greatly improving learning work efficiency and enriching our game entertainment life. It should be noted that the current mobile AR APP not only has a small number, but most of them have not fully demonstrated the characteristics of AR. Even so, my expectations for AR games remain undiminished, and I am confident that it will go to the next level.
AR applications are relatively few
The future imagination of wearable AR
My expectations are not made out of thin air, it comes from various scattered technical applications at present.
First, Huawei and Gentle Monster launched a smart wearable device - Bluetooth glasses . It is equipped with dual microphones and AI voice noise reduction technology, and supports wireless charging and touch-controlled song cutting, pause, call, wake-up voice assistant and other operations.
Furthermore, the technology of transparent screens is becoming more and more mature. The fully transparent glass screens presented by domestic Konka at the 2020CES exhibition have made fish tanks and windows become display screens. Although the price is expensive at this moment, the cost will eventually be gradually reduced with China's huge consumer group. It is not impossible to install it as a display screen into the above-mentioned smart wearable glasses.
transparent fish tank and windows are all screens, which can display color screens
and then embed the camera, microprocessing chip or directly connect to the mobile phone to call the mobile phone resources. We can wear AR glasses and you can swim in a country composed of reality and virtuality like in science fiction movies. By then, virtual images will no longer be limited to holographic projection of fixed devices (the actual application scope is not wide at present). Just wear AR glasses and you can transform into Tony Stark , which is Iron Man!
Of course! The most important thing about is to need an augmented reality development platform , similar to Apple ARKit. Only when AR applications have more and more wide coverage and more users can such augmented reality be experienced by most of us. Otherwise, if it is only enjoyed by a few people or has limited application areas, it will be dim like the ones that Google Glasses , just shine for 3 years.
The amazing Google Glasses
science fiction is not something that cannot be turned into reality. What needs to be solved to make a virtual reality come true are technical difficulties. Although this process is tortuous and long, in the future, it will eventually be a colorful world that blends your colorful imagination and blends his colorful dreams.
