You can launch apps with your eyes on Honor Magic 6 smartphone
Honor says its new phone allows you to open apps with your eyes. For this purpose, Honor Magic 6 is equipped with an eye tracking system. Honor calls the technology Magic Capsule and describes it as “multimodal interaction based on eye tracking.”
This is one of the features of the upcoming Magic 6, which will also have a virtual assistant based on Qualcomm’s local artificial intelligence that works on the device, not in the cloud. The user can ask it to perform actions such as collecting all videos on the device according to certain criteria, modifying them according to other characteristics, and creating a new video highlighting the final clip.
However, the details of the Magic Capsule’s operation remain a secret. The demo video is hardly a representation of real life, and it looks like a feature that may cause more frustration in daily use.
The “multimodal” descriptor seems to indicate that gaze is just one of the input channels in the system, so it can be combined with other gestures to work reliably. Perhaps similar to how it was implemented in PSVR 2 games.
Honor doesn’t say when the Magic 6 will go on sale, but Qualcomm says that phones with the new flagship chipset will start shipping in the coming weeks.
