With falling costs for NPUs in SBCs and AI PCs, there will be ubiquitous human-activity-sensing cameras and WiFi radios in buildings and desks. https://www.pcm

With falling costs for NPUs in SBCs and AI PCs, there will be ubiquitous human-activity-sensing cameras and WiFi radios in buildings and desks. https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-qualcomms-always-on-camera-became-its-always-sensing-camera https://www.pcmag.com/news/how-qualcomms-always-on-camera-be... > The “Always-On Camera” option that debuted with last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is now the “Always-Sensing Camera.” This feature keeps a phone’s front camera on, in a low-power and low-resolution mode and available only to the chipset’s Qualcomm Sensing Hub secure enclave, to do basic checks of presence. For example, blanking the display if a second face appears in the background in a possible case of shoulder surfing. https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-wifi-sensing-raptor-lake/ https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-wifi-sensing-raptor-lake/ > 13th Gen Raptor Lake processors. The technology is called Wi-Fi Proximity Sensing (or just Wi-Fi Sensing), and since I'm over at Intel's lab in Haifa, Israel, I've been able to give it a go for myself. It really is as simple as it sounds. You just walk up to the PC and it will wake from sleep to your desktop or lock screen. Then, if you walk away, it'll go back to sleep again 30 seconds after you abandon it. Upcoming activity detections include breathing rate, which can be a proxy for emotion. Who will own/secure the data?