One of the greatest hits in popularity of 2020 has been TikTok. More than a social network, it has become a place of great influence. Large companies such as Apple or the Ministry of Health of the Government of Spain have joined it. The objective? Promote or get your messages to reach young people. Now TikTok takes a step forward and launches the first effects compatible with the LiDAR scanner of the iPhone 12 Pro. Effects that interact with the environment and the user, thus enhancing user-application interaction.
The effects compatible with the LiDAR scanner of the iPhone 12 Pro arrive
The iPhone 12 Pro uses a LiDAR scanner to measure the time it takes for light to reflect off objects, and creates a depth map of the space you are in at the moment. Because it's so incredibly fast and accurate, augmented reality apps can turn your room into a rainforest or show you how those sneakers you have between your eyebrows would look like.
El LiDAR scanner that carry the iPhone 12 Pro in its rear camera complex is responsible for analyzing the environment generating a point cloud. This system allows developers work with the depths of the medium in a multitude of places or tasks such as measuring the area of a room or creating custom effects.
The latter is the case of TikTok, one of the social networks of the moment. Thanks to your Twitter account we know that The first effect compatible with the LiDAR scanner of the iPhone 12 Pro is now available. The effect itself is made up of a glowing ball that simulates New Year's Eve chimes with a countdown. When it ends, a cloud of confetti falls on the user and their environment, depositing on them, as it happens in reality.
To ring in 2021 we released our first AR effect on the new iPhone 12 Pro, using LiDAR technology which allows us to create effects that interact with your environment - visually bridging the digital and physical worlds. We're excited to develop more innovative effects in 2021! pic.twitter.com/6yFD2FfHta
- TikTokComms (@TikTokComms) January 6, 2021
This occurs thanks to the fact that the LiDAR scanner locates the elements and captures their depths, allowing TikTok's own effect to interact with them. In this case, energizing confetti on the elements captured at the moment. It is a great step in an app that makes use of one of the technologies that differentiates the iPhone 12 from the iPhone 12 Pro: the LiDAR scanner.