When Honor CEO George Zhao took to the stage this morning at Qualcomm’s 2023 Snapdragon Summit, we expected a lot of talk about generative AI, and that’s exactly what happened. But the announcement of its flagship Honor 6 included some surprising details. That meant it included the ability to control the device using your eyes. It looks pretty cool, although there are some notable concerns about privacy implications.
The keynote featured a brief rendering of what the technology would look like, including a snippet of the Uber app running at the top of the screen (something like a live activity) as a woman looks at her phone. ) was shown. Open the app completely by changing the direction of your gaze.
Honor calls the technology Magic Capsule and describes it as “eye-tracking-based multimodal interaction.” This is more descriptive but less fancy than Magic Capsule.
This is one of the features of the upcoming Magic 6, which will also include a virtual assistant powered by Qualcomm’s on-device AI. You can ask it to collect all the videos on your device that meet certain criteria, filter them based on other characteristics, and do things like generate new videos that highlight the clips. This year’s Snapdragon Summit is all about AI, so we’ll likely be seeing a lot more of that in the near future. For the record, 15 minutes had passed into the main keynote before the words 5G were ever uttered.
If and how – Magic Capsule the work is a question mark. Although the demo video is not a reproduction of the real world, And it seems like a feature that could cause more frustration than it’s worth. The “multimodal” descriptor seems to indicate that gaze is only one input in the system. Therefore, you can combine it with other gestures to ensure that it works. This is likely similar to how we previously saw PSVR 2 games use eye tracking to highlight things. Click to confirm. Also: you want Can you tell where you’re looking on your phone? This is no small problem when we talk about state-backed companies like Honor.
That aside, it’s nice to see device OEMs driving advancements in the way we use smartphones, starting and not ending with AI chatbots. Reliable eye-tracking technology has real accessibility benefits and is not completely unorthodox. This could come in handy when your hands are full — Apple certainly seems to think you need a new way to control your devices.
Honor hasn’t said specifically when the Magic 6 will ship, but Qualcomm has said phones with its new flagship chipset will start shipping within the next few weeks.