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Can Face ID feature still work in outdoor environment, specially under sunlight?
by dhanh 9y ago
Can Face ID feature still work in outdoor environment, specially under sunlight?
- matthewmacleod 9y agoI think we can all be fairly confident that a key feature in Apple's flagship new phone will work in sunlight, yes.
- eric_h 9y agoI'm not sure if the weather in California really provides enough sunlight for sufficient testing...
- oceanswave 9y agoThere's sunlight in California? Good gravy I need to get out more.
- valuearb 9y agoIt would be cool if the article addressed questions like this.
- Tempest1981 9y agoIt's a reasonable question -- the relative brightness of the sun vs the phone's IR emitter. (Not deserving of a downvote, imo)
- dhanh 9y agoI asked this question because as I know, some devices that use similar technology with IR emitter and IR camera don't work in sunlight. They're Microsoft Kinect, Intel Realsense, Leapmotion... That happens because sunlight is a bigger IR source that overlap on IR light from IR Emitter, then makes the IR camera cannot get the correct dot images.
- speedplane 9y agoBefore the iPhone implemented it, every fingerprint scanner I used either took forever or was miserably unreliable. I was skeptical iPhone's scanner could do a good job. It proved me wrong. Similarly, every facial recognition technology I have used has either taken forever or was miserably unreliable. This time I'm not betting against Apple.