What piqued our interest when Samsung was teasing the new Galaxy S10 5G features was the enigmatic “better spatial perception” when explaining what the four rear cameras bring. Samsung, it turned out, has been developing time-of-flight (ToF) camera sensors to go into its smartphones this year.
The tech is different than the 3D structured light face-reading kits on the front of phones like the iPhone 11, Pixel 4, or Mate 30 Pro in that it can map a whole room full of objects for you. It’s different than popular mobile AR efforts like Pokemon Go, too.
