Apple will officially
unveil the iPhone 8 at an
event on September 12th, and with it the future of smartphone design. The
company appears to have crammed the upcoming device with a bevvy of new features
including a complete redesign of the display (goodbye
home button!) and an all new array of sensors. The star of the show,
however, is the new face scanning technology.
Instead of using a password or pattern, iPhone 8 users will
unlock their device just by looking at it. And according to a report from Axios, those who’ve checked out the
technology claim it’s “light-years beyond anything that’s been tried
commercially.”
Several challenges have plagued previous efforts, such as
Samsung’s foray into facial recognition being famously fooled by photographs and perplexed by spectacles.
Facial recognition is almost useless unless it works perfectly; the whole point
has to be ease-of-use.
Apple may have solved these problems by adding several new
sensors to the iPhone 8, including a 3D facial recognition sensor, and an
infrared sensor that will allow the phone to look for you in the dark — similar
to how the Microsoft Kinect works.
The iPhone 8 is also getting a brand new clutter-free OLED
screen with crisper colors and sharper images, and with the addition of facial
recognition you won’t have to mess it up with your grubby fingerprints to
unlock it.
If Apple gets this right and pulls off seamless facial
recognition it’ll be a coup for the Cupertino company. This could place the
iPhone ahead of competition in a way it hasn’t been since it made the touch
screen mainstream in its first iteration.
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