Ok, the guy demoing the iPhone X just had to switch to the backup phone because the Face ID on the first one didn't work quite smoothly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's Apple's speciality to take good ideas that were never implemented properly and do it properly.
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.
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.
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.