The 2018 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference has not yet begun as rumors are already circulating about the 2019 version of the iPhone, which could accommodate a three-sensor camera. A rumor that seems to confirm the fervor of Tim Cook for augmented reality.
According to Taiwan's Economic Daily News, quoted by the MacRumors website, quoting a research note from Jialin Lu, an analyst at Deutsche Securities, Apple could introduce a three-sensor camera on at least one of its 2019 models. iPhone.
Three-sensor devices are not new in themselves, since the Huawei P20 Pro, for example, has such a system. However, Apple is known for capturing trends and pushing them a step further than other brands. This could explain the interest of bloggers hi-tech for this rumor.
According to MacRumors, Jialin Lu thinks that this system will allow a single object to be captured from different angles, thus allowing "stereoscopic vision", but also to determine the distance separating the object from the phone, thanks to the triangulation.
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But what does that mean exactly? To put it simply, this could play a big role in 3D image analysis and augmented reality, two topics dear to Apple's heart.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, has often expressed his enthusiasm for augmented reality, especially recently at the company's first quarter earnings conference: "I believe in augmented reality tremendously, we put a lot of energy into it, we are moving very fast. "
This possibility is therefore possible for the 2019 model. But Apple probably keeps several surprises in his sleeve for his "keynote" next week, which starts June 4