Honor says its new phone lets you open apps with your eyes
by Allison Johnson from The Verge - All Posts on (#6FW51)
The Magic Capsule technology is coming to Honor's next flagship. | Image: Honor We were expecting - and we got - a lot of talk about generative AI this morning when Honor CEO George Zhao took the stage at Qualcomm's 2023 Snapdragon Summit. But the announcement of its Honor 6 flagship came with a surprising detail: it includes a feature that lets you interact with the device using your eyes. With some notable concerns about privacy implications, it looks kinda cool.
The keynote briefly featured a rendering of what this technology will look like, showing a woman looking at her phone with a snippet of the Uber app running at the top of the screen - something like a Live Activity. By changing the direction of her gaze, she opens the app in full.
Honor calls the technology Magic Capsule, and describes it as eye-tracking...