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iPhone 8 Will Include 'Revolutionary' Front Camera With 3D Sensing Abilities
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At your request you have been added to the New iPhone Purchase Ban For Life list.
Not sure you know what "new" or "innovative" means in terms of technology, also not sure you know about when there is enough information to even make such a claim.
I think this is meant to be funny... in case not, obviously they are. Facial recognition and Augmented Reality. Are those not potentially useful to you?So help me god, if they actually go about making the stupid Avatars they came up with using this tech I'm going to be pissed.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...e-future-avatar-creation-and-editing-app.html
Hopefully they're doing something useful with this technology instead.
Personally I hope Apple will not get rid of Touch ID, I'm 99% confident they will not. How will people unlock their phones in bed with lights out? Unless maybe infrared will be used not just for depth perception but for outline and content fill?
Facial and other visual recognition will most likely be part of a stand alone 2-part authentication or even a mixed 3-part authentication for highly sensitive authentication uses.
If the new technology used is precise and powerful enough, you will be able to map augmented reality onto 3D surfaces and you will be able to scan a room to create a rough 3D model. It think this will be incredibly useful for many applications.
I dunno. Is there any good reason why Apple Pay cannot be enabled for even a full minute after unlocking it with our face?
The likelihood of someone playing man-in-the-middle during that time, seems pretty tiny.
How long is Apple Pay enabled on the Watch once you double-click? How long on the phone if you use a passcode instead of TouchId?
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Hmm, a plan could come together quite nicely for me here. 
Q4 this year for my newly revised/improved top-spec 15" rMBP and Q4 next year for a newly revised/improved iPhone 8 and Apple Watch with watchOS 4. Pending all predictions and estimates being accurate, of course.
Much gratitude to my tech savvy friend who gently and wisely advised me to avoid buying the 1st gen MBP 2016, and get an OS re-install on my current laptop instead. I will continue to take this approach. "All good things come to those who wait". Violet Fane, 1892.
Q4 this year for my newly revised/improved top-spec 15" rMBP and Q4 next year for a newly revised/improved iPhone 8 and Apple Watch with watchOS 4. Pending all predictions and estimates being accurate, of course.
Much gratitude to my tech savvy friend who gently and wisely advised me to avoid buying the 1st gen MBP 2016, and get an OS re-install on my current laptop instead. I will continue to take this approach.
"All good things come to those who wait". Violet Fane, 1892.
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Cool new tech, but 90% of the posts here are negative. Some people need to get lives.
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Because "Apple is stupid", there will be no iOS support for this feature. Or is it because "Tim is greedy"?
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Because "Apple is stupid", there will be no iOS support for this feature. Or is it because "Tim is greedy"?
No thanks. I wold rather get a Galaxy which offers the same features for $800. Cant afford to spend 1k every year on iPhones
I highly doubt iris scanning or facial recognition will replace TouchID. Maybe after a couple years, but certainly not this year.
As the article refers to iPhone 8 has it not occured to anyone this iPhone may be 18 months away? Apple does not celebrate anniversaries (apart from a Mac which just had a paint job) so what makes people think they will skip the S cycle. People say Apple can't stay with the same design for four years but every year they keep selling more.
I agree. In a business meeting, you can have the phone incognito (partially under a table), do the finger print scan, and kinda look down to see notifications. With iris and face scanning, you need to bring your phone into full view which is a distraction.
Also, why is it more secure... doesn't everyone have different finger prints? And if a thief knocks you out, they can still scan your face just as easily as your finger prints?
If you're correct (and I don't think you are), I'd be out shorting Apple stock. If they don't deliver something like what we've been hearing a lot about, they are going to tank.
In all seriousness, if the phone were not to be as ground-breaking as we are being led to believe, I think Apple would be quietly informing their trusted media friends that the rumors are all smoke and no fire. There is no upside for them allowing these rumors to persist if there's no basis. Could really hurt them as company.
There are so many more useful things that Apple can innovate on, like fold-out double sized screens, better customizable keyboards, a super battery, unbreakable plexiglass displays...
Dunno what the hack Jony Ive is playing around with (cardboard boxes and shop displays that anybody else can make)
It seems like 75% of the designers are asking themselves with the others do
Look what other companies can accomplish with 100k people on board (in the aerospace or car industry, furniture whatever...)
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Does seem a little suspect. I'm going for price hike on the top end model.
Someone's extra saltySo help me god, if they actually go about making the stupid Avatars they came up with using this tech I'm going to be pissed.
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patent...e-future-avatar-creation-and-editing-app.html
Hopefully they're doing something useful with this technology instead.
So what do MR posters consider innovative (other than anything being done by companies not named Apple)?
