Are people reading the words "eye tracking"? Why are so many people assuming it's using an accelerometer? It's simply eye tracking in the way that a digital camera has face recognition, and it adjusts the screen image according to angle.
If you knew what it took to do eye tracking and have it constantly on you would know it makes no sense to implement it on a phone just for UI eye candy.
On a camera it is ok to do face detection (which is easier to do than eye tracking) because it is momentary.
The evidence from the vid and just pure common sense points to them no using eye tracking. Just because it says eye tracking doesnt mean its true.
Ok, so... this technology has been around for years, and requires enough computing power to it "makes no sense" as an eye-candy measure on current or near-future phones.
So it's obvious that they _couldn't_ be using it in a concept that wouldn't see implementation in a production phone for at least 5 years, when phones might be powerful enough to throw away that kind of processing on UI?
Oh, and it'd actually require more resolution than a typical (VGA) camera on the front of the phone -- and it's _not_ like phones 5 years from now will all have 3MP front and 27MP rear cameras anyway. (Arguments based on the optics quality or sensor noise would carry much more weight than resolution, given current cameraphone trends...)
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Are people reading the words "eye tracking"? Why are so many people assuming it's using an accelerometer? It's simply eye tracking in the way that a digital camera has face recognition, and it adjusts the screen image according to angle.
If you knew what it took to do eye tracking and have it constantly on you would know it makes no sense to implement it on a phone just for UI eye candy.
On a camera it is ok to do face detection (which is easier to do than eye tracking) because it is momentary.
The evidence from the vid and just pure common sense points to them no using eye tracking. Just because it says eye tracking doesnt mean its true.
Oh yeah front camera resolution is weak.
Ok, so... this technology has been around for years, and requires enough computing power to it "makes no sense" as an eye-candy measure on current or near-future phones.
So it's obvious that they _couldn't_ be using it in a concept that wouldn't see implementation in a production phone for at least 5 years, when phones might be powerful enough to throw away that kind of processing on UI?
Oh, and it'd actually require more resolution than a typical (VGA) camera on the front of the phone -- and it's _not_ like phones 5 years from now will all have 3MP front and 27MP rear cameras anyway. (Arguments based on the optics quality or sensor noise would carry much more weight than resolution, given current cameraphone trends...)