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Face ID Described as iPhone 8's 'Crown Jewel', Unlocking Device in 'A Few Hundred Milliseconds'
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That's how I solve most of my problems.
And what happen with those people who grow a beard and shave it off on a regular basis. Does that mean each time the face will have to be rescanned.
Seeing as how the CEO of the company wears glasses, I would sure hope it has no trouble with glasses-wearers!
You want to unlock while snowboarding?.
Or, after a run just take off your mask like you now have to take off your gloves to use touchid .
I just hope my evil twin doesn't get a hold of my phone...
What about sunglasses? If I'm out wearing a cap and sunglasses my face looks a lot different.
Or, for that matter, burkas... now there's a discrimination lawsuit just waiting to happen...
It hasn't been fast, reliable or terribly secure.
That's not saying that Apple's version will be either, but when you have knowledge of what isn't working with a competitors system you can hopefully correct the problems that their system has.
Very interested to see how exactly this will work, and how it will handle the obvious concerns. Seems your phone would always be unlocked as long as you were in the near vicinity, what prevents someone sitting next to you from grabbing your phone while you're not paying attention and buy something using apple pay, there's gotta be more to it... some sort of way for the phone to "know" you want it to unlock.
I think Apple may be in a tricky situation here. The only way they can sell FaceID to the public is by saying "it's better/faster than TouchID". If that's the case how do they talk-up the iPhone 7s/7s+ that only has the now "inferior" method?
Isn't a few hundredths of milliseconds the same as tenths of a second, but a lot more complicated to say and confusing as well
As its "facial" recognition it shouldn't matter if you have glasses on. There are various other points on the human face that the camera/software will map and use. You will of course be required to scan your face, just as you need to scan your finger with the current finger print sensor, in order for the iPhone to map out your facial features so it can identify you. There may be a feature/option so that it includes your glasses or knows to ignore you glasses or something along those lines.
If for example wearing glasses means only a partial facial scan is possible then the iPhone may request a 2FA such as a passcode to be able to completely verify you.
I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Facial recognition is possibly the way of the future anyway. My guess is that one day you'll walk into a store, cameras in the store will scan you and know who you are, you then pick up items you want and simply walk out of the store. The store's system will automatically debit your account. I'm kinda thinking Minority Report tech here but who knows what will become the norm.
Amazon Go may one day switch to facial recognition, or use both when they officially launch.
This is funny on two levels. First all the little "problems" folks here bring up – as if Apple didn't think about all this stuff; a lot of you must be new here. Second, "Scoop" Gurman knows sh** all about the new iPhone; all of this has been rumored/confirmed many times before. So he has to pad his stupid article with a useless "history of smartphone innovations", with no regard to how well those things worked (or didn't) in their first implementations. Very, very lame.
You're not sure as you haven't seen it in action or haven't used it.
Fingerprint readers existed for years before Touch ID came along and made them all seem terrible in comparison.
By pricing the iPhone 8 a lot higher than the 7S.
So much higher that many people will balk at the price and wait until the face recognition system becomes the default iPhone system.
Isn't execution the point of it all, really? I mean, virtually anything and everything in modern technology was "thought up" before we even had our first personal computers.
Apple never really uses things first. But they certainly know how to perfect it. See: Motorola Atrix biometric fingerprint scanner (Feb 2011) vs the iPhone 5s with Touch ID (Sept 2013).