| ▲ | antennafirepla 7 days ago |
| You could, for orders of magnitude more compute than reading a magnetic encoder (my assumption at how they estimate it) |
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| ▲ | estimator7292 7 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sure, but not more than what you're already spending on transforming the image. And it's not like these devices are exactly lacking in horsepower. |
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| ▲ | 3eb7988a1663 7 days ago | parent [-] | | This is trivially broken by people who affix some type of cover over the camera. I do this on the off chance some errant application thinks it deserves to take pictures of my environment. | | |
| ▲ | yonatan8070 7 days ago | parent [-] | | If someone covers the camera, the feature isn't relevant since it requires the camera to see your desk | | |
| ▲ | kazinator 7 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Isn't the desktop view is produced from the iPhone camera capture, not from from the MacBook's camera? | | |
| ▲ | empressplay 7 days ago | parent [-] | | If you have a new Macbook the built-in camera does it | | |
| ▲ | kazinator 6 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm typing on a 2024 Macbook Pro. Is that sufficiently new? I don't see how it would work, practically. The only camera is the user-facing one. If the screen were tilted down toward the desk, I'd have to kneel down to see it. |
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| ▲ | Cthulhu_ 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| But compute is cheaper for the manufacturer than adding a sensor (parts & labor, and it adds up over millions). Someone must've done the math. |
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