AKURAT.CO The term “social distancing“Or”physical distancing“Recently it has become very common because of the spread of the Covid-19 virus. This rule should be easy to do, but not for those with visual impairments. They will certainly find it difficult to realize a safe distance in the midst of a pandemic.
Launching Slash Gear, Monday (2/11), the accessibility features brought to the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max will help users with limited vision. Using the LiDAR sensor, the device can detect nearby people, even notifying the user how close or far they are from people.
Thanks to the LiDAR sensor combined with technology from ARKit’s People Occlusiom, one can know certain distance threshold and notify the user accordingly.
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This accessibility feature is of course designed for those with eye problems or those who are totally blind. This ability gives them a sense, via audio readouts or haptics, if there are people within a certain distance so they can take appropriate action if needed.
Ultimately, this feature can also be used as a social distancing tool when set with a special threshold to notify them if people around are not taking proper security measures.
This detector is already available in iOS 14.2 beta and will be rolling out to the general public next week. Given this capability is derived from LiDAR, the inj feature will only be available on the “Pro” iPhone models, namely the iPhone 12 Pro and the upcoming iPhone 12 Pro Max.
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