[CubsFan1060]

I think you dismissed the portrait mode thing, which I think is by far the biggest use. Two other things I love -- "measure". It's very accurate. Also, there are several apps that allow you to scan an area and then send that to people. I've used it to show people an area (my office, a cool brewery I went to, etc). "3d scanner app" is one that I've used. Interestingly, I also used it to scan a piece of furniture I liked, which let me get precise measurements at a later date.

Edit: I forgot one super cool use of measure. Let's say you have a basement with an open ceiling. You can use the measure app to, say, measure a pipe. Then, when you walk upstairs, you can still see the pipe in 3D. So you can then understand just exactly under the floor where the pipe is. Very useful for things like pipes and electric wires.

[Kon-Peki]

> Edit: I forgot one super cool use of measure. Let's say you have a basement with an open ceiling. You can use the measure app to, say, measure a pipe. Then, when you walk upstairs, you can still see the pipe in 3D. So you can then understand just exactly under the floor where the pipe is. Very useful for things like pipes and electric wires.

That is really interesting. What app/service did you use to do this?

[CubsFan1060]

Just "Measure" on the iPhone. For instance, just measured the back wall of a closet. Then went to the next room and could see where the back wall of the closet was in AR.

[saiya-jin]

Samsung, at least ultra line, has Lidar too and exactly same type of measure app (on top of some AR doodling). Just tried it and its actually pretty precise (on S22 ultra). I wouldn't build a shelf based on just that data but otherwise nice little addition to the toolset.

[dmd]

Measure, like he said. It's built in.

[Kon-Peki]

Wow, I completely missed that. I reread the comment about 3 times before I recognized it. Need more coffee, I guess.

[berta]

The last one is pretty cool indeed. Still, I feel like Apple has still some "one more thing" for lidar in the future