A triple-lens camera could be part of next year’s iPhone
ONLINE speculations are being circulated that the 2019 version of the iPhone could integrate a triple-lens camera.
According to Taiwanese website Economic Daily News, citing a research note from Deutsche Securities analyst Jialin Lu, Apple may introduce a triple-lens camera on one or more of its 2019 iPhones.
Triple-lens cameras on smartphones are not unheard of — the Huawei P20 Pro for example, boasts such a setup — so it may not come as a huge surprise when other big tech brands start implementing the same technology.
However, Apple is known to set trends and take things a little further than other brands, which may explain why this rumour has tech bloggers speculating about all possibilities. According to MacRumors, Lu believes that this camera setup will allow for a single object to be captured from different angles via two sensors, thus enabling an “advanced 3D sensing via stereoscopic vision.” That would in turn be used to find out the distance between the iPhone and the object using triangulation.
But what does that mean exactly? Simply put, it could play a big part in 3D-depth sensing as well as augmented reality, both topics close to Apple’ s heart and therefore a reasonable assumption as to what could be in the pipeline.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, has frequently expressed his enthusiasm for AR, including recently at the company’s first quarter earnings conference call: “I am a huge, huge believer in AR. We put a lot of energy on AR, we’re moving very fast.”