Apple’s iPhone 12 introduces an interesting mix of new features, from improved design to its promising MagSafe technology. But its iPhone 12 Pro, Apple’s flagship phone, that gains a quirky new feature first seen on the most recent iPad Pro models: LiDAR.

LiDAR? What’s That?

LiDAR—also styled LIDAR, Lidar, and even LADAR—started out as a blend of the words “light” and “radar,” but was later used as an acronym: “Light detection and ranging” or “Laser imaging, detection,…