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How would LiDAR help? Is it just to get scale of the scene? I don't think the sensor could track the golf ball, it isn't very high resolution.
Are these apps interested in just the speed of the ball, or the direction too?
I'm not a golfer, but I'm interested in making this app for the hundred bucks you speak of.
The article does seem to imply there was no AR until the LiDAR, for sure the LiDAR adds some really cool features to ARKit, but all iPhones with an A9 chip or later support AR. The newer and fancier phones have improved tracking over earlier models, but earlier models are still very good.
I think the headsets are a completely different kettle of fish. You can't carry one in your pocket.
Other manufactures of mobile devices also offer AR, and have done for roughly the same time as Apple, I just happen to be an iOS dev who works on an AR based app, so I'm biased.
Android phones also have Tof sensors, but IMO, Apples implementation of LiDAR in their dev kit far outperforms the Android equivalents
I think the ones in the current Apple devices are manufactured by Sony.
Apple have been in the AR game for quite a while now, ARKit was already very good before LiDAR sensors came along.
The LiDAR has other uses in an Apple device too, rapid Auto focus for the cameras, doing fancy portrait shots blurring the background etc.
I just don't know that many people who use it regularly, is it just famous because a bunch of journos in silicon valley use it? How many of their users are bots? How many logged in once and never again? It's good marketing to overstate your influence.
So far as free speech goes, Twitter is free to moderate itself how it bloody well likes, people who don't like it can join other platforms.
Even among home "owners", most never pay off their mortgages due to various factors.
If you are renting, there seems to be considerably better protections for tenants than the UK, speaking as someone who was persuaded to move to Switzerland after having their rents raised so much I moved 3 times in 6 years in the uk. Rent raises were solely due to the fact that they could, my wage did not match. Switzerland offered me a considerably higher wage and cheaper rent (and lower taxes)
We're a software dev company, the company isn't entirely paperless, HR and finance still print and keep stuff for regulation purposes, but the rest of the company hardly prints anything. I use the printer maybe twice a year. At home, I've had my laser printer prob over six years and I changed the cartridge once, it had most use out of it when I was unemployed and had to deal with unemployment bureaus which love the stuff, they love you to submit reams of paper to them every month, and they used to bury me in the stuff right back, giving my binders to file the masses away in.
Now back in a programming job, I have a notebook to take a few notes now and then, some postits to stick on monitors and a few pages from courses I attended.
AT home, most of my outgoing costs are automated and they don't send me paper bills any more, apart from my health insurance, which still sends me paper, but I think it's another regulatory thing here.
Shady apps are probably more likely to be installed on grandmas phone by grandkids than by cybercriminals, social engineering isn't just someone trying to gain access to someones bank details, it can be targeting kids to pester parents etc to install this totally safe app that has no protections on in app purchases.
It's pointless to argue that on el reg forums though, as everyone here is perfectly informed on every aspect if software, they would never allow anything to install without going through every line of source code first
If your job involves any kind of research, I would say raising some theories should automatically disqualify you from a job by simply casting doubt on said persons research abilities, maybe they just auto copy paste the first answer from github (Or more likely, the most downvoted one as anyone presenting a contrarian opinion is more likely to be correct than all those sheeple upvoting the top answers)
I mostly work with iOS but this is my field,
iPhones with dual cameras will use 2 cameras to get depth of field, single camera iPhones. won''t do it.
In addition phones that support FaceID have a depth camera on the front facing camera.
And now there's LiDAR enabled phones too.
Android has the depth API, which can work with a single camera, it just requires a bit of movement so it can compare multiple frames to derive some depth data, from our experiments though, it is nowhere near as accurate as the iPhone. Some android devices also have time of flight sensors, which really improve the results.
For a single image though, you are correct, they will not show information that's behind other things, in which case you can build a model using say a photogrammetry tool, or now, with phones with depth sensors, you can now build a model in app.
But I suspect, even from a single image, there are probably tools that can reconstruct missing background information with a bit of AI, but it's not my field.
The Swiss put their app on github. https://github.com/admin-ch
You've got your own app that you scan the qr code from the vaccine form, another app that can check it without revealing any details apart from your name. Only valid with another form of ID.
It's all completely separate from any other medical stuff
Went to a nightclub a few weeks ago with it, and a festival this past weekend (Nightclubs and large events are only allowed if everyone can prove they are vaccinated)
I watch YT through my playstation, for the most part, it's pretty good and sticks to the stuff I like on the recommended for you section. But I've madde the mistake once of watching some truly insane nutter out of curiosity and then said nutter and associates kept popping up, and I had to go and start them so I could dislike them before thy eventually went away. If I want to see something like that now I got to private mode on my iPad and watch it there.
Also, don't make the mistake of watching anything gun related, even if't is some odd antique weapon, coz YT is suddenly, oh you like guns? I'll give you guns, nothing but guns.
Although it now seems to now turn up in google search, last year I needed the very specific definition of the EXIF format to try and debug and fix a very annoying problem we had with one implementation we were using. Could I find the damn doc anywhere? No, there were some pages that gave a fairly detailed breakdown, but never quite complete enough. The exif.org website has it, but you cannot find it from the home page. I think I first found it through a chain of links leading somehwere where someone mentioned it in passing in a comment.
Just carry on with the arrogance, cheap devices are either cheap or you're the product, sure, *you'll* know to remove all the bloat and adware, but you represent a tiny majority of buyers, no one selling a mass market device is banking on you buying it, they're planning on making just as much margin as Apple. Apple releasing a cheap device would be a signal that they're just going to sell all the data they have.Everyone competes, Apple make high price products that cost me less time than cheaper ones I have to sanitize.
`Never, never be happy with a walled garden. It's a prison. Have you stopped trying to look over the walls yet to see the big world? What walls?`
Not even on your own house? Like I say, don't buy a house with a wall if you don't want one, it's not my computer, it's my iDevice.
And I very much feel it's all the techies looking down on me and the snobbishness is strong with this post, as with most who despise Apple devices, it's very much look at all this software? Which one is bad you ask, you can just go read the source code for absolutely all of them, isn't it wonderful, yes sure, you have to have extensive experience with computers to understand it, and plenty of time, but everyone does, right?
Almost every story here on el reg about Apple will have both the article and the commenters go on about Apple's walled garden and how they would never buy them. Or that Apple users just like to buy shiny gadgets, whatever.
Point is, it's pretty well known that Apple's iDevices are restricted, and some people, myself included, are quite happy about that.
While I'm not happy about the 30% cut apple takes, they don't really earn it anymore, the app store is full of suspect apps, I'm less happy that these suspect apps could free reign to make it even worse by implementing their own deceptive in app purchase mechanisms.
Quite right, when will they learn that freedom of speech is for those in power only? Don't you just wish all these woke people could be silenced and ignored? Only positive and reinforcing views should be allowed, I'm so sick of being forced to read about it all and have to go on forums to express how offended I am
I'm very dubious of cross platform solutions that attempt to cross the divide between mobile and desktop, they tend to do both badly and encourage almost exclusive desktop developers to think mobile devices are just like desktops with smaller screens.
Having switched over to the all USB-C not long after they came out, I slowly upgraded all my cables and dongles as I needed them. There's only a couple of things I still need dongles for, HDMI dongle, very occasionally to connect to a projector, but most displays support thunderbolt now. Some external HDs still need a dongle, but now I tend to buy stuff with USB-C anyway.
Even before the change, I was doing multi-media stuff, and connecting multiple displays to my laptop, so even 1 HDMI slot was not enough
I do feel a lot of the sneery attitude some techies have towards them is severely misguided, we design for them in construction, inspection and agriculture industries, particularly with drones, but now branching out into using their AR Tools, the addition of a LiDAR sensor has opened up a lot of possibilities.
This is what I thought, you can get a link to a group hosted Signal, which I guess anyone could join, and you could post that link somewhere public.
But AFAIK, there's no facility in Signal to browse groups, so I can't go onto signal and go looking for groups based on subject or the like. Nor do I care for it to do that.
Then they're left with the problem that, short of randomly joining publicly posted groups, they can't go looking through the messages because it's all encrypted.
That's not the only motivation such tactics might be employed, protecting a brand is also another reason. Apple can vet all the software they run on it.
Lots of devs confuse iDevices for computers, but your grandma might not want their nephew to install the latest kewl hacks, and should somthing like that happen, it wouldn't be the hcker nephew that gets the blame but grandma blaming apple
I kinda think that is how he ran his business, and why he failed so many. He very likely had unreasonable beliefs and demands, fired anyone who didn't agree with him, prob ended up with a bunch of yes men who covered what was really happening to the businesses until it was too late, and it all melts down.
My iPhone X faceID would not work with a face mask on, but in the last couple of weeks, it's started working again, maybe at the last iOS update? I'm not entirely sure, haven't been out so much and used it as we faced deeper restrictions here... plus time is all becoming a bit of a blur.
It is one of my favourite features TBH, better and more reliable than touchID, really annoyed to go back to the PIN when FaceID stops working
Although many here object strongly, I actually like that apple exerts strong control over what can get installed on my iPhone and the restrictions it places on developers to comply to certain standards. I agree that the cut is a bit large, but otherwise, completely and utterly fine that say, apps can't download executable code, or that a snooping app can't be sideloaded without me knowing it's there.
If you don't like that, don't buy an Apple phone. It seems to me, that to a certain extent, some devs would really like to get around one of the reasons I buy apple in the first place to sell me shitty apps with dodgy in app purchases
Ugh, QT, no, maybe for desktop, but far more trouble than it's worth for mobile, it only appeals to devs who like to make a project 10 times more complicated for the pleasure of pushing cpp on mobile and thinking they've done a much better job because they've made everything as bad as it is for them.
But you don't understand, all these big heads who know stuff specifically created a system to discredit natural healers, things like science were engineered in such as way, with things like double blind drug trials, to put honest healers with natural remedies and simple charms out of business so big pharma can control the market, it's all corrupt you see.
Or so I read in a comment somewhere, jews have something to do with it too.
What's the ILLEGITMATE PRESIDENT narrative?
The narrative I've seen is that he's an incompetent buffoon, perpetual liar, narcissist.
But recently I've been seeing posts like this, rewriting history to try and justify the massive fraud claims.
I think most people think it was unfair he won despite losing the popular vote, and that he possibly colludes with foreign powers to try and get dirt on his rivals and influence the vote.
But this narrative you speak of? where is it?
As someone who has a great deal of difficulty tellings people voices apart, seeing people faces is a great help, as is just seeing the expressions, which helps me to understand people a lot better.
TBH though, I've hated telephones for a long time, and it's much harder still if you're trying to speak and understand a foreign language, I find facial cues help a tremendous amount. I hardly ever even use voice calls on my mobile, it's usually spam, anyone who knows me knows to send text, chat, etc, and I speak to my mum on facetime, given a choice of calling a number or any other means of communication, i will hunt down any other method of contacting rather than talk to someone on a phone.
Well, no, they didn't have the internet, and the UK and US court systems are vastly different, it was handled by the police, who did (eventually) find him. I find your comparison quite absurd.
But all "evidence" here is not being done by the police, FBI or anyone, it's a bunch of trumpists saying, "I heard so and so". And my, don't the jokesters have a lot of that
However, we do have a top elected us official encourage voters to commit voter fraud on video.
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