LiDAR for All
When Apple added a LiDAR Scanner to the iPad Pro last spring it heralded a whole new era in photography, imaging, and augmented reality, and even though its usefulness on the iPad Pro was limited primarily to AR applications, it wasn’t hard to see what it could bring to the iPhone camera system.
So, it was pretty exciting when the LiDAR Scanner came to the iPhone 12 Pro models, but if rumours are true, that distinction may fade away this year, with reports that it could be coming to the entire iPhone lineup.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that the standard iPhone will necessarily gain a three-lens camera system, since even the 2020 iPad Pro packed in the LiDAR Scanner with only two lenses (neither of which are up to the same standards as even the 2019 iPhone 11), but it would power whatever photographic capabilities are already there, while also allowing fans of the lower-cost iPhone models to take advantage of improved augmented reality features (which we suspect would probably be Apple’s primary reason for adding it).