also, some engineer at apple had to continuously grow a beard to test this
For presentations like these you always have multiple devices standing by, ready to flip over to at a moment's notice.
I always thought chances of finding facial-doppelgangers are higher than fingerprint ones. Is that really wrong?
Based on their phrasing, I'm assuming the "adaptive" aspect means that slow changes, such as gaining or losing weight, will progressively train the existing face - without it ever failing to recognize you because you passed some weight threshold. Same would go for growing a mustache or beard. As to whether you can shave off a 5-year beard and have it still recognize you without manual intervention, that would depend on how much the algorithm cares about your chin and lip regions vs. the rest of your face. Based on the demo, the hair on top of your head is 100% ignored.
Banks are all about risk management not necessarily avoiding and and all risks.
But again if you can't trust your twin well then your phone is the last thing I would be worried about.
Ask their mom. (Hint: They're not.)
Perhaps they can sidestep this by offering a specific twin learning feature.
Slower and more error prone. Environmental changes such as extreme lighting (being outside) or wearing sunglasses stopped it from working.
Windows Hello and compatible webcams work really well in a stable desktop environment mind. I've just rolled them out across my firm.
It's Apple's speciality to take good ideas that were never implemented properly and do it properly.
Sure, many devices had fingerprint scanners before Touch ID, but the Apple implementation was pretty damn impressive compared to what came before.
Still, I can't help but feel that Face ID is a fudge they resorted to because they couldn't get Touch ID working through the screen reliably.
If not then what the GP said doesn't apply.
Of course we could talk about the fact that Google was demanding all sorts of user data from Apple and wanted the ability to display ads on top of the maps… But people never talk about that. And Apple replace the head of the division that messed it up.
Just Apple is mean.
I've heard (anecdotally on podcasts) they're roughly even.
The one thing I've heard in the past is it really depends on where you live. Google had better data in rural areas or other countries (they've been at it for what, almost 15 years?) so Apple Maps may not be an option for some.
In the US? I'm not sure there is a big difference for streets.
(Pretty sure Apple has slightly fewer points of interest like businesses, but it's rare I run into that).
And that said they have made decent improvements over the years.
Even if that idea was good.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-iris-scanner-lumia-950-an...
Amazing, -4 for mentioning this isn't a new feature. This is exactly how the kinect works, how windows hello enabled webcams work.
From https://www.petri.com/windows-10-tip-using-the-lumia-950-wit...:
>Let’s be clear about how Windows Hello works on the Lumia 950. It doesn’t use facial recognition, but instead relies on the front camera and a nearfield IR diode so that the camera can clearly see your iris. When you enable Windows Hello for the first time, your iris is scanned and a cryptographic hash is generated and stored securely on the phone. When you attempt to unlock the device using Windows Hello, a new hash is generated and compared with the original, and if the two match, access is granted.
>Facial recognition on the other hand, as used in some new notebooks designed for Windows 10 and Intel’s RealSense F200 camera, uses three different methods to recognize your face: infrared, a standard camera, and a 3D camera. This technology requires more space inside the device and as such isn’t suitable for use in phones, but unlike iris scanning works at a distance.
You didn't get downvoted for mentioning a feature already implemented elsewhere, you were downvoted by trying to claim a device did something it clearly didn't.
Additionally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_recognition says "Iris recognition uses video camera technology with subtle near infrared illumination to acquire images of the detail-rich, intricate structures of the iris which are visible externally" which doesn't involve any kind of infrared dot map.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/video-shows-galaxy-s...
Here's what Samsung has to say about the feature
>The Galaxy S8 provides various levels of biometric authentication, with the highest level of authentication from the iris scanner and fingerprint reader. In addition, the Galaxy S8 provides users with multiple options to unlock their phones through both biometric security options, and convenient options such as swipe and facial recognition. It is important to reiterate that facial recognition, while convenient, can only be used for opening your Galaxy S8 and currently cannot be used to authenticate access to Samsung Pay or Secure Folder.
Not exactly a vote of confidence from the manufacturer, is it?
https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/11/android-facial-unlock-phot...
That's a beta version and I can't guarantee it was true of the release version, but since all they were working with was the normal front facing camera I doubt they were able to make this secure.
Now that I see how apple is doing face id I think it will work more reliably ... eventually. I doubt they'll get it right on the first try because this is the kind of feature that has to bake in the real world (like apple maps). Still, they may surprise us like they did with the equally hard touch id feature.
200 ms is like a full react/response time for a human to take action in response to input, our actual sense of time is much finer than what our nervous system can make our muscles do.
The question is could you tell the difference between your 144hz monitor and your 144hz monitor with the signal delayed 100ms.
But of course, that's not the problem. It's ok that the phone doesn't unlock with out me noticing the delay. It just can't be so long that I start doubting whether it works.
This overdrive is probably also the cause of burn-in-effects that seems to be especially common in VA panels.
Curious as I just got back into gaming after several years and everyone seems to love 144fps now, wondering if I should upgrade. I have a 1080Ti, so I could presumably render that
Upgraded to a 165hz G-Sync panel recently and it was a revelation after running at a v-synced 60hz for years and years.
Order the 1080TI about a week later as the 970 I had wasn't cutting it at 1440p.
I actually find most modern games run at about 90-110fps with what I would consider "good settings".
Even if you turn settings way down 165 is really hard to maintain.
e: But watching the keynote, it's definitely doesn't seem that fast...
First off, as the person above said, you can start the unlocking process long before it's even facing with with touch-id, as you're taking it out of your pocket. With this, this "timer" starts only when it's fully out and facing you.
Next up, in this, it has to be facing you perfectly. You can't unlock it sneakily under the table, you can't do it while someone else is looking at your phone, etc.
Lastly, you still need to manually swipe to actually open the phone, so it's not like you're not using your finger either. If at least you could unlock it without using your hands that would be something.
At the end of the day, I still want to see properly reviews of what the actual successrate is too. It's not all about speed, if it fails 5% of the time, that's extremely annoying.
TouchID is much faster.
Their solution was to split it into two different steps.
You have the same issue with Face ID. If the "lock screen" went away as soon as you look at your phone you could never actually look at the notifications there.
Clearly they had to do something. Does this work well? I guess we'll find out when the reviews come out.
I am very skeptical about FaceID. I actually love TouchID, can hardly imagine anything better, but Apple has surprised us before.
- attention - faceid - swipe
And no cue to know if faceid worked before swiping. I couldn't see cues (maybe I missed them).
To be honest, with the full glass, I expected something like.. a full screen fingerprint scanner (have no idea if it's feasible at all). I thing TouchID is the best biometric input for casual operation.
So much speciesism.
Could have just made the laptop camera up to scratch for this like Surface books are.
I feel we're being sold a compromise and until they failed to get a Touch ID sensor below that screen this was plan B.
The iPhone X is currently the only device to support face detection. All other iPads, iPhones, and MacBook Pro range use TouchID. It was years before it was ever added to the Mac, it'll likely be years before FaceID arrives as well.
My point is more that why make a big deal about shipping dead tech to the laptop if this truly is what they consider the future and a better system.
if (true) {
unlock_phone();
}All these people posting about consistently unlocking it without looking seem like they're from a different universe.
My 6 worked so infrequently that i stopped bothering. At least with my 7 it works about half the time on the first attempt or two. I've put my prints in many times, I've even recorded my thumb from all sorts of angles as multiple fingers. Still no joy.
Wet hands also cause problems, but wet beyond sweaty.
This requires you to always orient the screen "inwards" (towards your leg).
In the cooking use case you ought to be able to say "hey Siri, keep my phone unlocked", but she'd probably just search for that on Bing.
I do the pocket-unlock you describe often. At the same time, Touch ID has its own limitations. For instance, it doesn't work if you try to unlock after recently holding a cold beer (or have even slightly damp hands for any other reason).
You know, it really depends how fast it is. You need attentiveness to use your phone, so requiring attentiveness to unlock it doesn't seem unreasonable, provided it happens in less time than it takes to move your thumb to the glass.
No, this is not true. I can log in and activate functions of my phone right now without looking at it.
If I have to look at my phone, there is a problem. If the phone merely needs to see my face, maybe it's less of one. The iPhone is already slow enough I find myself waiting on it, I don't want it to be any slower.