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Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro has a mysterious new ‘lid angle sensor’
- core-questions 7y agoMaybe it's something to do with how people often carry around their machine partially open?
- hcarvalhoalves 7y agoSomething about the new microphones maybe? Safety measure? EDIT: Found this https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-16-microphone-in-clamshell.2212013/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-16-micropho... , apparently the mic kept working even w/ lid closed on old models but not anymore.
- gcoguiec 7y agoFrom the comments: > I’m guessing the angle of the screen tells the software at what angle your head probably is, and that data is use that as an input for tuning audio spatially.
- re 7y agoThis reminded me of "lid controlled volume" (from the reddit running joke of absurd volume controls): https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6fowct/lid_controlled_volume_mac_edition/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6fowct/lid... That one was implemented using the ambient light sensor to estimate angle.
- mncharity 7y agoI could have used something similar, when doing XR-ish laptop human interfaces. Assuming sufficient resolution. Knowing screen pose relative to eyes, from head tracking on the laptop webcam, it would have been nice to simply derive keyboard pose, without needing to track it separately (with an extra camera/mirror/kludgery).