To someone who grew up with rotary dialling and tangled cords this modern incarnation of the ‘phone’ is frankly mind blowing. With a built in LiDAR sensor, the ‘Pro’ models can now be used to scan a space, generating point clouds with millions of points. Last year the iPhone got another string to its bow. Now we can capture every single moment of our lives, rather than just those special occasions usually reserved for our bulky cameras. It also completely changed the way we take photos. It’s a personal assistant, video player, games console, shopping portal and sat nav among many other things. It’s sometimes easy to forget that the iPhone is only 14 years old, and its role as a ‘phone’ has now become secondary to all the other things it can do. How can a commodity mobile device like the iPhone or iPad be used to capture reality on the construction site? Greg Corke caught up with LiDAR scanning software developer SiteScape to find out more
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