Apple introduced the new iPhones this week.
It was all about the cameras.But no matter how good Apple lenses, camera electronics and computational photography AI gets, that all still an evolution of what everybody is already doing: taking selfies and cat videos.Apple didn''t even mention the real revolution, which will change everything.The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro will contain an Apple-designed chip called the U1.
The U1 chip enables ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning, which means it designed to pinpoint the locations of nearby objects.Ultra-wideband used to be called pulse radio.
It been used for years in military and medical applications.
But UWB is uniquely suited to real-time locating systems (RTLS), which is what Apple is going to use it for.