Honor Magic 6 Boasts Eye-Tracking Feature To Let You Open Apps With Your Eyes

Qualcomm has just wrapped up Day 2 of Snapdragon Summit 2023 at Maui, Hawaii. The company made four significant announcements this year. At the event, other smartphone makers also made important announcements. Honor is one of them. During the second day of the Snapdragon Summit, Honor CEO George Zhao took the stage and amazed the audience by teasing its upcoming Magic 6 smartphone. However, what surprised people was an Honor Magic 6 feature that allows you to interact with the device using your eyes. What? yes, you heard right! The highly anticipated Honor Magic 6 boasts a new feature dubbed eye-tracking. It allows you to open any app with just a gaze.

The keynote shortly featured a rendering of what this eye-tracking technology will look like. It showed a woman looking at her phone with a snippet of the Uber app running at the top of the screen. It was something like a Live Activity. By changing the direction of her gaze, she was able to open the app in full. It was just amazing! Honor defines this technology as “eye-tracking-based multimodal interaction.” The company calls this feature “Magic Capsule”. It resembles the dynamic island of iPhones but with eye-tracking capability.

Honor Magic 6 Will Sport Eye-tracking Feature Along With Latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Honor didn’t go into detail about how this technology works. However, the feature does showcase the AI capabilities of the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor. It is pertinent to mention that the forthcoming Magic 6 will be powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. The smartphone maker also provided a preview of what is possible with on-device Gen AI.

One of the most prominent features of the Magic 6 is a virtual assistant that takes benefit from Qualcomm’s on-device AI. Honor displayed a video of how a person creates a compilation using videos stored on their phone. The software after that recognizes different people in a video and refines its results by only showing items of them smiling or doing other actions. According to Honor, Magic 6’s LLM is different from cloud-based LLMs, as those are trained on publicly accessible datasets.

The Magic 6 will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s built-in generative AI language models to power a new personal assistant called YOYO. The large language model will be capable of using up to 7 billion parameters and being on-device. Moreover, it will not need to send any personal data remotely to work. You’ll be able to initiate the personal assistant to answer questions and create short videos featuring photos and footage stored on your device. YOYO will be able to give you answers specific to you. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will be seen in most “premium” Android devices early next year from brands including OnePlus, Vivo, and Sony. The processor runs large language models, just like the technology behind ChatGPT on the phone itself. So, let’s wait and watch what the latest chipset offers.