stackyFACTSYour smartphone camera is secretly acting like a heavily miniaturized autonomous car.
Your smartphone camera is secretly acting like a heavily miniaturized autonomous car. The solid-state LiDAR array crammed into the back of an iPhone fires millions of microscopic laser pulses into your living room and measures the exact nanosecond it takes for the light to bounce back. This time-of-flight calculation instantly generates a flawless, millimeter-accurate 3D topographic map of your environment for seamless augmented reality.
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