Honor has demonstrated how smartphone eye-tracking technology can be used to control cars.
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BARCELONA — Chinese company Honor on Sunday unveiled technology that allows users to control their cars using just their eyes.
The company’s Magic 6 Pro device was unveiled internationally on Sunday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Honor demonstrated its smartphone eye-tracking technology as part of the press conference. The phone uses a selfie camera and artificial intelligence to track where your eyes are looking on the screen.
One demo included an app to control a car. The app had four commands: engine start, engine stop, reverse, and forward.
In a video about the feature, Honor showed how the car performs a function, such as moving forward, when a person looks at one of the commands.
There’s no word on whether this feature will actually be rolled out in collaboration with automakers, but as smartphone makers compete against each other with AI capabilities, Honor is showing off new technology in its devices.
Huawei was forced to sell Honor to a coalition of buyers in 2020 to avoid brand damage from US sanctions. Since then, Honor has launched devices, including flip phones, aiming to grow in the premium segment of the market. Honor is currently his fourth largest smartphone player in China, but is still small globally.
The company will hope that advanced features such as eye tracking will help make its smartphones more appealing.
One of the features that Honor’s Magic 6 Pro will have overseas is the ability to open apps just by looking at your phone. When a notification pops up at the top of the screen, users simply stare at it and eye-tracking technology opens the associated app.
As AI becomes a hot topic at MWC, the world’s largest mobile trade show, Honor introduces a concept chat built on Meta’s Llama2, a so-called large-scale language model that developers can use to create AI applications. We also showed off the bot.
In the demo video, a user can be seen asking the chatbot to write a poem about activities to do in Barcelona and MWC.
It is unclear when this will start.