It’s not even close to the same thing. Samsung’s iris scanner is another half assed attempt that gets fooled by something as simple as picture.
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KGI: TrueDepth Camera Gives Apple 2.5 Year Lead Over Android Competitors
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It’s not even close to the same thing. Samsung’s iris scanner is another half assed attempt that gets fooled by something as simple as picture.
And you have used face ID??? Hmmm..
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Works flawlessly for me.
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Respect. It will probably take Apple about the same time to bring the iPhone X prices to the level of comparable Android phones. 
2.5 year lead.. that sounds about right as far as catching up to preorders for X. People are going to be buying other devices for a while once they realize X is sold out till end of Q1 2018.
Not surprising. Same with Touch ID, it still works better than other fingerprint sensors.
Iris scanning is ok, but you have to look directly at phone at an acceptable angle. Also, there are several scary warnings about possible eye damage during setup. FaceID works at many more angles and is far more reliable and impossible to fool--if it works the way Apple claims.
There are several good features of the Note 8 that Samsung has over the iPhone X (screen quality, brightness and higher PPI, S Pen, etc) but facial recognition isn't one of them. I'm a Note 8 owner by the way. Depending upon the reviews of the iPhone X, I may switch.
False. Craig Federighi stated they experimented with Touch ID under the display as a Plan B option, but abandoned the project once Face ID was working as intended. The idea that Face ID was rushed due to Touch ID under the Display was not true. Touch ID is not coming back. Face ID is Apples future.
https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_and_observations
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The usability and security of Iris scanner is inferior to Face ID. I haven't used Face ID, but based on hardware, demonstrations, and documents, this is proven to be the case.
Why do people still keep bringing this up? Even Apple said that Touch ID under the screen was investigated as a plan B Incase Face ID wouldn’t work. Face ID is undoubtedly the future.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Forget about Touch ID and move on, Face ID is the future. It's not about embedding Touch ID under the screen, this can already be done. The problem Apple faces is trying to do that on top of the 3D Touch stack on the same display, something rivals don't have to contend with. So we may see rival displays with fingerprint recognition built-in, but it's easier for them to do with less complex displays.
There is no stop-gap when it comes to Face ID and Apple will not be abandoning it by including Touch ID in the display. Touch ID is on the way out and Face ID is here to stay and will likely replace Touch ID on all devices in the coming years. I don't know why people persist in moaning on about Touch ID coming in next years iPhone and Face ID being dropped, not going to happen.
And yet it still won't be as convenient and easy as Touch ID. It might work great, but it doesn't make using the phone easier.
FaceID/Truedepth camera isn't even remotely close to anything near as revolutionary as the original iPhone though.
You state a lot of opinions, but I'd really like to hear some facts as to why Face ID is the future and Touch ID is on the way out?
Touch ID all over again. It took Apple many years and billions to develop this, but "development and manufacturing hurdles" are easier to overcome when you have a blueprint to copy. So 2 years sounds about right, though I'm sure we'll see rushed versions of face ID next year from various manufacturers.
I don't think most people are going to get enthused about the facial recognition system. As long as they can quickly unlock their devices it isn't going to matter if it is through facial recognition, touch ID on the front, or even touch ID on the back.
Making 3D models using the camera would be nice in some applications, but more people would get use out of it on the back rather than the front. This will be especially true in augmented reality where people are using their phones as the viewing mechanism and need to see the external environment displayed on screen.
This is an extension of work done for the Kinect camera for the Xbox 360. By all accounts the Kinect has been a massive failure in implementation as people simply don't care for gesture based inputs. I don't see it being any different in a front-facing environment on the iPhone. Apple needs to come up with a use case scenario outside of Animojis in order for this to be a design defining feature. Rear-facing 3D camera = tremendous possibilities for CGI in home movies as well as scanning items into CAD systems without the need for expensive equipment. Front-facing 3D camera = meh.
Making 3D models using the camera would be nice in some applications, but more people would get use out of it on the back rather than the front. This will be especially true in augmented reality where people are using their phones as the viewing mechanism and need to see the external environment displayed on screen.
This is an extension of work done for the Kinect camera for the Xbox 360. By all accounts the Kinect has been a massive failure in implementation as people simply don't care for gesture based inputs. I don't see it being any different in a front-facing environment on the iPhone. Apple needs to come up with a use case scenario outside of Animojis in order for this to be a design defining feature. Rear-facing 3D camera = tremendous possibilities for CGI in home movies as well as scanning items into CAD systems without the need for expensive equipment. Front-facing 3D camera = meh.
If Apple tells them it's the future, they believe it's the future with no further research. They may not even ever try it and it is so.
In the interim I expect Hamstrung and Fandroid to do their best to copy with half-baked solutions. And their fans will fall for it...again.
Do you (and others) not realize you lose all credibility when you talk like that?
And FWIW, Samsung has nothing to really copy here. Will Apple's solution work better than Samsung's? Sure. But (at least for the next year) Samsung owners have multiple ways to unlock their S8/Note 8's. Owners of the iPhone X will only have two, and neither of them are as convenient as current options, which is what 99% of the general public cares about.
Even if they can, I hope they don't. Because competition is good, it pushes apple (and others) forward...
Well, it already exists in other devices, it seems that Apple's advantage is that they can make it much smaller. I doubt one can patent "small camera".