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Motorcycle Vibrations Can Damage Your iPhone Camera, Apple Warns

If you ride a motorcycle, your bike’s engine could be damaging your iPhone cameras. Apple is warning customers that exposing its smartphones to certain types of vibrations can lead to permanent harm to the imaging system. Apple quietly issued the warning in a new Apple support document titled, “Exposure to vibrations, like those generated by high-powered motorcycle engines, might impact…
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Why Camera Sensors Matter and How They Keep Improving

What is the most important aspect of a camera to consider when looking to buy a new one? In this video, Engadget put camera sensors in the spotlight and reviewed how they have improved and what role they play in today’s photographic equipment. Camera brands regularly…
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Leica BLK ARC Camera Allows Robots to Better Navigate the World

Leica Geosystems has announced a new reality capture camera device for robots like Boston Dynamics’ Spot that is designed to improve autonomous navigation. Leica Geosystems may use the Leica name and logo, but it hasn’t been directly associated with Leica Camera AG in some time and is currently part of Hexagon AB, a publicly traded Swedish global information technology company that…
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Samsung is Considering Integrating Cameras into its S Pen

Samsung has designed an S Pen with an integrated smartphone camera that would give its Galaxy line of phones more ways to capture photos. According to a new patent discovered by LetsGoDigital, Samsung has created what it describes as a “portable terminal including…
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Volu is an AR Creation App That Only Needs Your iPhone’s Cameras

In an effort to commoditize augmented reality (AR), Volograms has launched the Volu app that uses deep learning and computer vision in concert with smartphone cameras to easily create AR content. Volu is described as an artificial-intelligence-powered mobile content creation platform that is the first to allow smartphone users to easily create, share, and play with immersive, dynamic content for…
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